fabulist

[ fab-yuh-list ]

noun

1. a person who invents or relates fables.
2. a liar.

fabulist

/ ˈfæbjʊlɪst /

noun

1. a person who invents or recounts fables
2. a person who lies or falsifies

Word History and Origins

Origin of fabulist¹

1585–95; < Middle French fabuliste, equivalent to < fābul ( a ) fable + -iste -ist

Example Sentences

The fabulist ocean, this inscrutable outer space whales return from, in a metaphorical sense, enchants us with our own inward enigmas.

From Nautilus

The fabulist seems to want only to rant in his new monologue.

From The Daily Beast

To some I will always be a fabulist, a scoundrel, and a liar.

From The Daily Beast

From there stemmed the idea of a fabulist, a man who lives in this alternate reality.

From The Daily Beast

It is subtitled a "family fable" because there is a moral attached, and because Mac was a fabulist.

From The Daily Beast

The born poet still talks that way, he is naturally a fabulist and cannot help himself.

From Project Gutenberg

Some of these folk-tales suggest the ingenuity of a fabulist.

From Project Gutenberg

Querulously he complained that people would not take him seriously, that they treated him as a fabulist.

From Project Gutenberg

In 1664 La Fontaine published his first collection of fables, and it gave him immediately the very highest rank as a fabulist.

From Project Gutenberg

La Fontaine, the fabulist, was buried by the side of Moliere, who died long before him.

From Project Gutenberg