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| Main Entry: |
yarn
 [yahrn] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fiber for knitting |
| Synonyms: | cotton fiber, flaxen thread, fleece, spun wool, thread, twist, wool |
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| Main Entry: | anecdote |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interesting or amusing story |
| Synonyms: | chestnut, episode, fairy tale, fish story, gag, incident, long and short of it, narration, narrative, old chestnut, recital, relation, reminiscence, short story, sketch, tale, tall story, tall tale, yarn |
| Notes: | an antidote is a remedy or other agent used to neutralize or counteract the effects of a poison; an agent is a force or substance that relieves or counteracts; an anecdote is a short account of an interesting or humorous incident |
| Main Entry: | description |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account in speech, writing |
| Synonyms: | ABCs, blow by blow, brief, characterization, chronicle, confession, declaration, definition, delineation, depiction, detail, explanation, explication, fingerprint, information, make, monograph, narration, narrative, picture, portraiture, portrayal, presentment, recital, recitation, record, recountal, rehearsal, report, representation, rundown, sketch, specification, statement, story, summarization, summary, tale, version, vignette, writeup, yarn |
| Antonyms: | misrepresentation |
Example Sentences
- Some are made of fine wool while others are composed of homespun yarn.
- If your relaxing activity of choice is knitting, do not choose yarn that sheds.
- If you're allergic to cats, don't even think about wearing mohair, the fuzzy yarn made from the silky hair of angora goats.
| Main Entry: | exaggeration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overstatement, embellishment |
| Synonyms: | aggrandizement, amplification, baloney, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story, flight of fancy, hogwash, hyperbole, inflation, jazz, line*, magnification, misjudgment, misrepresentation, overemphasis, overestimation, pretension, pretentiousness, rant, romance, stretch, tall story, untruth, whopper, yarn |
| Antonyms: | minimization, reduction, understatement, unembellishment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fable |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fantasy, story |
| Synonyms: | allegory, apologue, bestiary, bunk, crock, fabrication, fairy story, fairy tale, falsehood, fantasy, fib, fiction, figment, fish story, hogwash, invention, legend, lie, myth, old chestnut, old saw, one for the birds, parable, romance, tale, tall story, untruth, white lie, whopper, yarn |
| Antonyms: | truth |
| Main Entry: | fabrication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lie |
| Synonyms: | artifact, concoction, deceit, fable, fairy story, fake*, falsehood, fib, fiction, figment, forgery, hogwash, invention, jazz, jive, line*, myth, opus, smoke*, song and dance, untruth, work, yarn |
| Antonyms: | truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | falsehood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lie |
| Synonyms: | canard, cover-up, deceit, deception, dishonesty, dissimulation, distortion, equivocation, erroneousness, error, fable, fabrication, fakery, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, feigning, fib, fibbery, fiction, figment, fraud, half truth, hogwash, line, mendacity, misstatement, perjury, pretense, prevarication, sham*, story, tale, tall tale, untruism, untruth, untruthfulness, whopper, yarn |
| Antonyms: | truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fib |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | undetailed lie |
| Synonyms: | canard, crock, equivocation, evasiveness, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fiction, invention, jazz, line*, mendacity, misrepresentation, prevarication, spinach, story, tale, untruth, untruthfulness, white lie, whopper, yarn |
| Antonyms: | truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fiction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | made-up story |
| Synonyms: | anecdote, best seller, book, cliff-hanger, clothesline, concoction, crock, drama, fable, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, fib, figment of imagination, fish story, hooey, imagination, improvisation, invention, legend, lie, misrepresentation, myth, narrative, novel, potboiler, prevarication, romance, smoke*, storytelling, tale, tall story, terminological inexactitude, untruth, whopper, work of imagination, yarn |
| Antonyms: | non-fiction, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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