fabular

American  

[fab-yuh-ler] / ˈfæb jə 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

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Example Sentences

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fabular

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 ● Nov. 4, 2025

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 ● Jul. 13, 2019

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.

From The New Yorker ● May 25, 2017

The photograph is from the late 1960s, but its form is so iconic and its atmosphere so fabular that it could have been made a hundred years earlier.

From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2017

Groff and Phillips especially share a knack for fabular, dreamlike writing.

From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2015

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