Confabulate

Word CONFABULATE
Character 11
Hyphenation con fab u late
Pronunciations /kənˈfæbjʊleɪt/

Definitions and meanings of "Confabulate"

What do we mean by confabulate?

To talk casually; chat. intransitive verb

To fill in gaps in one's memory with fabrications that one believes to be facts. intransitive verb

To talk familiarly together; chat; prattle.

To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle. intransitive verb

To speak casually with; to chat. verb

To confer. verb

To fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory. verb

Have a conference in order to talk something over verb

Unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory verb

Talk socially without exchanging too much information verb

To speak casually with; to chat.

To confer.

To fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Confabulate

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The word "confabulate" in example sentences

I sketch rather than describe in detail, letting the readers confabulate to fill in the whole picture. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Rogue artists who confabulate our notions of what art is and isn't are always going to come along, and we should be grateful for them, even encourage them. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Here are the facts that Spencer has managed to confabulate on his website's rendition of events: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Now you can confabulate about the inner workings of his mind when he composed Quixote if you want. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Henry Sidgwick, you are not only highly selective in the questions you choose to answer, you evade answering the questions, prevaricate and confabulate. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I simply think she should not confabulate and reinvent her position. ❋ Unknown (2009)

People who confabulate are confronted directly often lash out at their questioners, which in President Bush's case could be a disaster for us all. ❋ Unknown (2008)

AP has the right, with the First Amendment, to report like this, and the crazy congressman has the right to confabulate his fantasies about Obama. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In order to justify their behavior they confabulate, make up a variety of lies in order to manage real and imagined questioning. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Untreated alcoholics confabulate; they make things up as they go along. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Life Divine is a far off ideal and to confabulate on it without even reading the book is fruitless. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2008)

Thereupon quoth she, I will win for thee thy wish, Inshallah! but for the present go thou into the garden and take thy pleasure therein and eat of its fruits, that have neither like in the world nor equal, whilst I send for my son Shahyal and confabulate with him of the matter. ❋ Unknown (2006)

To confabulate the history of a galaxy in an altogether different supercluster some millions of years ago with your own current situation is a sure sign that your partway assimilation into the Borg has caused irreparable damage to your faculty of judgement. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The main obstacle, as far as Carolyn could tell, was the nonstop scrutiny of the press, the tendency on the part of mass-market media to confabulate stories purely to sell newspapers or television and radio airtime. ❋ C. David Heymann (2007)

First, if I am experiencing an emotion that seems altogether inappropriate to its occasion, I will naturally confabulate an explanation for it. ❋ De Sousa, Ronald (2007)

That the medical industry and it's supplier's, physicians, minion's and sycophants are not held in utter disrespect and beneath the position of the honest prostitute, or gambler, is beyond my poor ability to confabulate and/or ideate. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In this manner, said my master, did the parson and I confabulate; and I set him down at his lodgings in the village. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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