Choose the synonym for embellishment
- thesaurus
- tale
tale
synonyms for tale
- account
- anecdote
- fable
- fiction
- legend
- myth
- narrative
- novel
- short story
- yarn
- narration
- relation
- report
- romance
- saga
- fairy tale
- folk tale
See also synonyms for: tales
antonyms for tale
Most relevant
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use tale in a sentence
If tales are true, he’s one of the biggest bullies Washington has ever seen.
Why Larry Summers Still Triggers Washington. (It Isn’t His Economics.) | Philip Elliott | February 8, 2021 | TimeOZY and History’s newest podcast, The Food That Built America, tells the tale.
Through interviews with both of them and members of their families, Glaser is able to meticulously re-create their tale.
For a mother forced to give up her child, decades of grief, shame and secrets | Ellen McCarthy | February 5, 2021 | Washington Post
The tragedy, of course, is that Spears still can’t tell that tale herself.
Britney Spears and the trauma of being young, female and famous in the ’90s | Ashley Fetters | February 5, 2021 | Washington PostIn this 2018 book, Miller lets Circe take center stage, imagining what filled all the space between her appearances in ancient tales.
As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
Not that the demonstration had anything to do with this couple, whom Sarah seems to see as a fairy tale come to life.
Were the fairy-tale true it really would shame the affluent west.
Whilst Whitacre never defined himself as an “ally,” this remains a cautionary tale of what not to do.
Tech’s Male ‘Feminists’ Aren’t Helping | Cate Huston, Karen Catlin | December 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTUrban America is often portrayed as a tale of two kinds of places, those that “have it” and those who do not.
The Rustbelt Roars Back From the Dead | Joel Kotkin, Richey Piiparinen | December 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut he was ignorant of that part of the horrid tale; and the Duke, in a milder voice, bade him rise.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4 | Jane PorterNever had Punch secured the telling of that tale with so little opposition.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Rudyard KiplingThe tailor of the fairy tale with his "seven at a blow" is not in it with the gunnery Lieutenant of a battleship.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonUntil very recently little has been known of the strange land in which the subject of this tale lives.
Our Little Korean Cousin | H. Lee M. PikeThat was how I learnt the strangest tale that ever a man was told, and knew the miracle to which I owed my life.
Uncanny Tales | Various
Synonym of the Day
Browse