1. (noun) a deliberately false or improbable account

• fable
• fabrication

1. (noun) a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

• dystopia
• fantasy
• phantasy
• novel
• story
• utopia

2. (noun) a deliberately false or improbable account

• canard

1. (noun) a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

• literary composition
• literary work

2. (noun) a deliberately false or improbable account

• falsehood
• falsity
• untruth

1. (noun) a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

• fabricated
• fancied
• fictional
• fictitious
• fictional
• fictionalise
• fictionalize
• retell

2. (noun) a deliberately false or improbable account

• assumed
• false
• fictitious
• fictive
• pretended
• put on
• sham
• cook up
• fabricate
• invent
• make up
• manufacture
• fabricated
• fancied
• fictional
• fictitious
• fabulist
• fabulous
• fictionalise
• fictionalize
• retell