fabulist

[ fab-yuh-list ]

/ ˈfæb yə lɪst /

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noun

a person who invents or relates fables.

a liar.

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Origin of fabulist

1585–95; <Middle French fabuliste, equivalent to <fābul(a) fable + -iste-ist

Words nearby fabulist

Fabrikoid, Fabritius, Fabry, fabular, fabulate, fabulist, fabulous, fac., facade, facadism, face

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How to use fabulist in a sentence

The fabulist ocean, this inscrutable outer space whales return from, in a metaphorical sense, enchants us with our own inward enigmas.
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The fabulist seems to want only to rant in his new monologue.
Mike Daisey’s Monologue ‘Journalism’: This Is Not an Apology Tour|Winston Ross|May 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST
To some I will always be a fabulist, a scoundrel, and a liar.
Mike Daisey Remembers Steve Jobs a Year After His Death|Mike Daisey|October 5, 2012|DAILY BEAST
From there stemmed the idea of a fabulist, a man who lives in this alternate reality.
Rebecca Miller on Broadway’s ‘Death of a Salesman’ Revival|Rebecca Miller|June 1, 2012|DAILY BEAST

It is subtitled a "family fable" because there is a moral attached, and because Mac was a fabulist.
The Best of Brit Lit|Peter Stothard|March 18, 2010|DAILY BEAST
The born poet still talks that way, he is naturally a fabulist and cannot help himself.
Homer's Odyssey|Denton J. Snider
Some of these folk-tales suggest the ingenuity of a fabulist.
Solomon and Solomonic Literature|Moncure Daniel Conway
Querulously he complained that people would not take him seriously, that they treated him as a fabulist.
Lafcadio Hearn|Nina H. Kennard
In 1664 La Fontaine published his first collection of fables, and it gave him immediately the very highest rank as a fabulist.
Paris: With Pen and Pencil|David W. Bartlett
La Fontaine, the fabulist, was buried by the side of Moliere, who died long before him.
Paris: With Pen and Pencil|David W. Bartlett

British Dictionary definitions for fabulist

fabulist

/ (ˈfæbjʊlɪst) /

noun

a person who invents or recounts fables

a person who lies or falsifies

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