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See definition of rumor on Dictionary.com
  • nountalk about supposed truth
  • verbtell a supposed truth

synonyms for rumor

  • comment
  • fabrication
  • falsehood
  • gossip
  • hearsay
  • hoax
  • innuendo
  • lie
  • news
  • report
  • scandal
  • story
  • suggestion
  • tale
  • whisper
  • word
  • breeze
  • bruit
  • canard
  • cry
  • dispatch
  • earful
  • fame
  • fiction
  • grapevine
  • intelligence
  • invention
  • notoriety
  • repute
  • rumble
  • scuttlebutt
  • supposition
  • tattle
  • tidings
  • wire
  • back-fence talk
See also synonyms for: rumored / rumors
On this page you'll find 87 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rumor, such as: comment, fabrication, falsehood, gossip, hearsay, and hoax.

antonyms for rumor

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  • evidence
  • proof
  • quiet
  • silence
  • truth
  • conceal
  • tell the truth
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Because the rumors mentioned voter data from Michigan, the office of Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson also denied that any information had been stolen.
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The controversies come as Robinhood is adding senior executives specializing in compliance ahead of rumors the company soon plans to go public.
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By the end of 2019, such rumors were linked to at least 70 violent incidents, according to analysis by the data journalism website IndiaSpend.
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There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
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In 1821 rumor had it that he intended to wed a miller's widow, his patroness, who was thirty-two years old.
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Our men thought it was an exaggerated rumor, but still they were advising people to leave Holland as early as possible.
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But while the rumor remained uncontradicted it caused high excitement and great rage.
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There is a rumor that if the two overcome the Christians, they turn their arms against the kalif and the arch-sultan next.
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WORDS RELATED TO RUMOR

  • comment
  • cry
  • grapevine
  • hearsay
  • news
  • report
  • rumble
  • rumor
  • scandal
  • scuttlebutt
  • talk
  • whisper
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.