fabricatory
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to fabrication, storytelling and lying.
adj
Pertaining to fabrication, construction, and manufacturing.
noun
A business that handles the fabrication of goods.
Example Sentences
- "It has already been stated that the simple grandiose and fabricatory patients (using the terms to denote symptoms above described) are not prone to hallucinations, though the maniacal are."
- "He found a group of patients showing no hallucinations, but being depressed, grandiose, maniacal, or fabricatory."
- "As a little child she had been awed into a reverence for people who kept their word, although in those days she was not without contempt for luckless ones who could not escape Mother Meg's strap by reason of a certain lack in their fabricatory regions."
- "Your informants must have been pursuing the twisted fabricatory machinations of Baron Muenchhausen.”"
- "Those officers whom we have mentioned meeting may perhaps be puzzled over our identity and it would be as well to say that we are nebulous and intangible creatures, with a tendency towards fabricatory embellishment !"
- "I pointed out the fabricatory nature of Asokamitran's campaign to the editors and followed it up with a reply to his rejoinder listing some of the distortions, one by one, and bringing out what my stand was and how they appeared in Asokamitran's presentation."
Etymology
From fabricate + -ory.