fabular

American  

[fab-yuh-ler] / ˈfæb yə lər /

adjective

1. of or relating to a story, novel, or the like written in the form of a fable.

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Etymology

Origin of fabular

1675–85; < Latin fābulāris, equivalent to fābul ( a ) fable + -āris -ar ¹

Example Sentences

The campaign of “denunciations and rumor that took down the Lutheran preachers,” he writes, “belongs to an age before the advent of paparazzi, radio, television and digital social media, but that is precisely what endows their story with fabular power.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The book’s last and shortest entry, the fabular “The Old Man in the Piazza,” makes for a somewhat slight coda.

From Los Angeles Times

But, at their best, they are thrillingly fabular, giving us the sense that we are witnessing a shadow play, our attention absorbed while elsewhere something fundamental takes place.

From The Guardian

And yet in the end I couldn’t quite swoon as much as everyone else – and though this is a film which pays tribute to people who are different, it does so in the reassuring rhetoric of fabular unreality.

From The Guardian

Those who have been socio-economically repressed – fighting men, former squaddies, Travellers – resurge in this rich, fabular novel, as does something more radical and doomed: a pre-capitalist morality.

From New York Times