fabular

[fab-yuh-ler]

adjective

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of fabular¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The fabular quality that makes Green’s clothes feel like plausible garb for the interstellar colonists of the early twenty-second century has also endeared them to the pop stars of the early twenty-first.

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