confabulate
Meaning of confabulate
- engage in conversation; talk.
she could be heard on the telephone confabulating with someone
- fabricate imaginary experiences as compensation for loss of memory.
she has lapses in attention and concentration—she may be confabulating a little
early 17th century: from Latin confabulat- ‘chatted together’, from the verb confabulari, from con- ‘together’ + fabulari (from fabula ‘fable’).
Information about confabulate
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of confabulate is: confabulates.
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Hyphenation of confabulate
con-fab-u-late
- It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
- confabulate is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
confabulate synonyms
Meaning chew the fat:
chat, confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit
Meaning confer:
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