confabulist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who confabulates; a companion with whom one chats or confers.
noun
One who invents elaborate stories, especially false ones misrepresented as if they were true.
Example Sentences
- "I knew him only as a grey-bearded sage — he was my father's friend and close confabulist! " said Hueline, with a slight smile."
- "... his heaven—the organ and confabulist of angels and spirits, their ideal brother."
- "He's bonded Monte Alban guide, a sidewalk Sophist, Palenque wizard, brother in arms and drink confabulist, Mixtec and Zapotec, globetrotting cosmologist with answers for everything in his bag of tricks: solving problems for men floating belly-up, for doubting warriors who now scratch their heads."
- "The confabulist, who simply cannot resist making up stories, wastes an enormous amount of other people's time."
- "Oh — well, you see, that part's true. But not everything I say is true. Part of my illness. I'm a confabulist."
- "The confabulist loves the tools of her trade, the stream of words that is a river of stars flowing through the knowable universe, but words are only anthills and mountains, aspects from which the river is seen."