All fib synonyms
fib
F f verb fib
- plant β any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- shovel β an implement consisting of a broad blade or scoop attached to a long handle, used for taking up, removing, or throwing loose matter, as earth, snow, or coal.
- concoct β If you concoct an excuse or explanation, you invent one that is not true.
- fabricate β to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- invent β to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph.
- falsify β to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- palter β to talk or act insincerely or deceitfully; lie or use trickery.
- promote β to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
- prevaricate β to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
- jive β swing music or early jazz.
- make up β the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
- trump up β Cards. any playing card of a suit that for the time outranks the other suits, such a card being able to take any card of another suit. Often, trumps. (used with a singular verb) the suit itself.
- dissemble β to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one's incompetence in business.
- deceive β If you deceive someone, you make them believe something that is not true, usually in order to get some advantage for yourself.
- misrepresent β to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely.
- feign β to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of: to feign sickness.
- fake β to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
- pretend β to cause or attempt to cause (what is not so) to seem so: to pretend illness; to pretend that nothing is wrong.
- equivocate β Use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself.
noun fib
- untruth β the state or character of being untrue.
- white lie β a minor, polite, or harmless lie; fib.
- storey β story2 .
- story β a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
- lie β Jonas, 1880β1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
- tall tale β far-fetched story
- whopper β WarGames
- falsification β to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- fabrication β the act or process of fabricating; manufacture.
- canard β A canard is an idea or a piece of information that is false, especially one that is spread deliberately in order to harm someone or their work.
- crock β A crock is a clay pot or jar.
- equivocation β The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication.
- evasiveness β The quality of being evasive.
- falsehood β a false statement; lie. Synonyms: fabrication, prevarication, falsification, canard, invention, fiction, story.
- falsity β the quality or condition of being false; incorrectness; untruthfulness; treachery.
- fiction β works of this class, as novels or short stories: detective fiction.
- invention β the act of inventing.
- jazz β music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality.
- line β a thickness of glue, as between two veneers in a sheet of plywood.
- mendacity β the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
- misrepresentation β to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely.
- prevarication β the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
- spinach β a plant, Spinacia oleracea, cultivated for its edible, crinkly or flat leaves.
- tale β a narrative that relates the details of some real or imaginary event, incident, or case; story: a tale about Lincoln's dog.
- untruthful β not truthful; wanting in veracity; diverging from or contrary to the truth; not corresponding with fact or reality.
- yarn β thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.
- fairy tale β a story, usually for children, about elves, hobgoblins, dragons, fairies, or other magical creatures.