fabricate

The word “fabricate” has 3 syllables: fab-ri-cate

It's pronounced as /ˈfæbrɪˌkeɪt/


What is synonym and antonym for fabricate?

In the thesaurus, “fabricate” has 141 synonyms and 59 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for fabricate along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for fabricate

  • ad-lib
  • assemble
  • begin
  • beguile
  • brainstorm
  • build
  • carpenter
  • cobble up
  • coin
  • combine
  • come up with
  • compose
  • conceive
  • concoct
  • confect
  • constitute
  • construct
  • contrive
  • cook up
  • counterfeit
  • cozen
  • craft
  • create
  • daydream
  • deceive
  • defame
  • delude
  • design
  • devise
  • dissemble
  • dissimulate
  • distort
  • dream
  • dream up
  • drum up
  • dupe
  • envisage
  • envision
  • equivocate
  • erect
  • establish
  • excogitate
  • extemporize
  • fake
  • falsify
  • fantasize
  • fashion
  • father
  • feign
  • fib
  • fit together
  • fool
  • foreswear
  • forge
  • form
  • formulate
  • forswear
  • found
  • frame
  • fudge
  • garble
  • generate
  • gull
  • hammer
  • handcraft
  • hatch
  • head trip
  • hew
  • hoax
  • hoodwink
  • imagine
  • improvise
  • inaugurate
  • initiate
  • innovate
  • institute
  • invent
  • jerry-build
  • jive
  • join
  • kid
  • knock out
  • knock together
  • libel
  • lie
  • make
  • make like
  • make up
  • manufacture
  • mint
  • misguide
  • misinform
  • mislead
  • misreport
  • misrepresent
  • misstate
  • mix
  • mold
  • organize
  • originate
  • palter
  • perjure
  • picture
  • piece
  • piece together
  • prefab
  • prefabricate
  • pretend
  • prevaricate
  • produce
  • put together
  • put up
  • raise
  • rear
  • reassemble
  • rebuild
  • reconstruct
  • redevelop
  • reedify
  • refashion
  • remake
  • remanufacture
  • retrofit
  • set up
  • shape
  • slander
  • snow
  • structure
  • take in
  • think up
  • throw together
  • throw up
  • traduce
  • trick
  • trump up
  • turn out
  • unite
  • vision
  • visualize
  • whip up
  • whomp up

Antonyms for fabricate

  • abolish
  • annihilate
  • assert
  • authenticate
  • be honest
  • blow up
  • break
  • break up
  • clone
  • confirm
  • copy
  • copycat
  • demolish
  • demount
  • destroy
  • detach
  • devastate
  • disarrange
  • disassemble
  • disconnect
  • disengage
  • disjoin
  • dismantle
  • dismember
  • disunite
  • divide
  • duplicate
  • eradicate
  • explode
  • exterminate
  • extinguish
  • flatten
  • imitate
  • knock down
  • level
  • mimic
  • neglect
  • pull down
  • pulverize
  • raze
  • reduplicate
  • replicate
  • reproduce
  • ruin
  • ruinate
  • separate
  • shatter
  • smash
  • strike
  • substantiate
  • swear
  • take apart
  • take down
  • tear down
  • tell the truth
  • testify
  • validate
  • verify
  • wreck

Meanings of fabricate

  • verb
    1. To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to construct; to build.
    2. To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce.
    3. To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely.
    4. To cut up an animal as preparation for cooking, particularly used in reference to fowl.

Example Sentences

  • The accused tried to fabricate an alibi, but the evidence pointed to their involvement.
  • Engineers had to fabricate a custom solution to address the unique challenges of the project.
  • It's unethical to fabricate information in a research study to support a predetermined conclusion.
  • The spy was skilled at using deception to fabricate elaborate cover stories.
  • As the deadline approached, the author had to fabricate a convincing ending for the novel.

On this page you'll find 200 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to fabricate, such as: abolish, ad-lib, annihilate, assemble, assert, authenticate, be honest.

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Related Words

ideate

  • analyze
  • appraise
  • appreciate
  • brood
  • cerebrate
  • cogitate
  • comprehend
  • conceit
  • conceive
  • concoct
  • consider
  • contemplate
  • daydream
  • deduce
  • deliberate
  • dream
  • envisage
  • envision
  • estimate
  • evaluate
  • examine
  • fabricate
  • fancy
  • fantasize
  • fantasy
  • feature
  • figure out
  • foresee
  • hallucinate
  • have in mind
  • image
  • imagine
  • infer
  • intellectualize
  • invent
  • judge
  • logicalize
  • make up
  • manufacture
  • meditate
  • mull
  • mull over
  • muse
  • picture
  • plan
  • ponder
  • prefigure
  • project
  • rationalize
  • re-create
  • reason
  • reflect
  • relive
  • reminisce
  • resolve
  • revolve
  • ruminate
  • see
  • sort out
  • speculate
  • stargaze
  • stew
  • stop to consider
  • study
  • take under consideration
  • turn over
  • vision
  • visualize
  • weigh

fake

  • Janus-faced
  • Pecksniffian
  • act
  • actor
  • ad-lib
  • adulterate
  • adulterated
  • affect
  • affected
  • artful
  • artificial
  • assume
  • assumed
  • automatic
  • backhanded
  • bastard
  • bluff
  • bluffer
  • bogus
  • brummagem
  • bum
  • calculated
  • camouflage
  • campy
  • canned
  • canting
  • charlatan
  • cheat
  • claptrap
  • conceal
  • concoct
  • concocted
  • conscious
  • contrive
  • contrived
  • conventional
  • copy
  • copycat
  • counterfeit
  • counterfeiter
  • cozener
  • crib
  • cultivated
  • cultured
  • cute
  • cutesy
  • deceitful
  • deceiver
  • deception
  • deceptive
  • defrauder
  • deke
  • deliberate
  • delusive
  • designer
  • devious
  • devise
  • disguise
  • dishonest
  • dissemble
  • dissembler
  • dissimulate
  • doctor
  • doctored
  • dodge
  • dodger
  • double
  • double-dealing
  • double-faced
  • duffer
  • dummy
  • duper
  • duplicate
  • empty
  • engineered
  • ersatz
  • evade
  • exaggerated
  • extemporize
  • fabricate
  • fabricated
  • fabrication
  • facetious
  • facile
  • facsimile
  • factitious
  • fake out
  • faker
  • fakir
  • false
  • faux
  • feign
  • feigned
  • feigner
  • feint
  • fictitious
  • flimflam
  • forced
  • forge
  • forged
  • forgery
  • formal
  • four-flusher
  • fraud
  • fraudster
  • fraudulent
  • fudge
  • fudged
  • gaff
  • genteel
  • glib
  • gold brick
  • goody-goody
  • hatch
  • histrionic
  • hoax
  • hoaxer
  • hokey
  • hollow
  • humbug
  • hypocritical
  • imitate
  • imitation
  • imitative
  • imitator
  • impersonal
  • impersonate
  • impersonator
  • imposition
  • imposter
  • impostor
  • imposture
  • improvise
  • inauthentic
  • inflexible
  • insincere
  • invent
  • invented
  • jive
  • jocular
  • juggle
  • juggled
  • juke
  • junque
  • knockoff
  • labored
  • left-handed
  • let on
  • lip
  • make believe
  • make up
  • malinger
  • man-made
  • manipulate
  • manipulated
  • manufacture
  • manufactured
  • mask
  • masquerade
  • mealy
  • mealymouthed
  • meaningless
  • mechanical
  • melodramatic
  • mimic
  • mincing
  • misleader
  • misleading
  • mock
  • mock-up
  • mountebank
  • nonfunctioning
  • operator
  • ornamental
  • overacted
  • overdone
  • overrefined
  • pat
  • pharisaical
  • phoney
  • phoney-baloney
  • phony
  • phony-baloney
  • pinchbeck
  • pious
  • plagiarize
  • plant
  • plastic
  • play
  • playact
  • pose
  • poseur
  • premeditated
  • pretend
  • pretended
  • pretender
  • pretense
  • process
  • profess
  • pseudo
  • pump-fake
  • put on
  • put on an act
  • put-on
  • quack
  • quacksalver
  • queer
  • reduplicate
  • replica
  • replicate
  • reproduce
  • reproduction
  • rigid
  • ringer
  • sanctimonious
  • scam
  • scammer
  • scamster
  • self-righteous
  • sham
  • sharper
  • sharpie
  • sharpy
  • shoddy
  • sidestep
  • simon-pure
  • simpering
  • simulate
  • simulated
  • simulation
  • skinner
  • sleight
  • slip
  • snide
  • spoof
  • spurious
  • stiff
  • strained
  • studied
  • stutter-step
  • stylized
  • substitute
  • superficial
  • swindle
  • swindler
  • synthetic
  • theatric
  • theatrical
  • tongue-in-cheek
  • trick
  • trickster
  • two-faced
  • unauthentic
  • unctuous
  • unnatural
  • unreal
  • unrealistic
  • untruthful
  • wooden

jerry-build

  • assemble
  • begin
  • bring about
  • build
  • carpenter
  • cast
  • coin
  • combine
  • compile
  • compose
  • conceive
  • concoct
  • confect
  • constitute
  • construct
  • contrive
  • create
  • design
  • devise
  • engineer
  • erect
  • establish
  • evolve
  • fabricate
  • fashion
  • father
  • fit together
  • forge
  • form
  • found
  • frame
  • generate
  • hammer
  • handcraft
  • imagine
  • inaugurate
  • initiate
  • innovate
  • institute
  • invent
  • knock together
  • make
  • make up
  • manufacture
  • model
  • mold
  • organize
  • originate
  • piece
  • prefabricate
  • produce
  • put together
  • put up
  • raise
  • rear
  • reassemble
  • rebuild
  • reconstruct
  • redevelop
  • reedify
  • retrofit
  • sculpture
  • set up
  • shape
  • superstruct
  • synthesize
  • throw together
  • throw up
  • unite

lain

  • BS
  • avoided
  • awaited
  • be
  • be beside
  • be buried
  • be established
  • be even
  • be fixed
  • be found
  • be interred
  • be level
  • be located
  • be on
  • be placed
  • be prone
  • be recumbent
  • be seated
  • be smooth
  • be supine
  • be untruthful
  • bear false witness
  • been
  • beguile
  • belong
  • beset
  • born
  • borne
  • break promise
  • bull
  • commanded
  • con
  • concoct
  • couch
  • coursed
  • crossed
  • cut
  • deceive
  • delude
  • dissemble
  • dissimulate
  • distort
  • dupe
  • dwelled
  • dwelt
  • eluded
  • equivocate
  • evaded
  • exaggerate
  • exist
  • extend
  • extended
  • fabricate
  • fake
  • falsify
  • fib
  • followed
  • forswear
  • frame
  • fudge
  • go back on
  • go to bed
  • gone
  • have its seat in
  • headed
  • hid
  • hidden
  • holed up
  • hung around
  • invent
  • lain low
  • laze
  • led
  • lie down
  • loll
  • lounge
  • lurked
  • make believe
  • malign
  • misguide
  • misinform
  • misinstruct
  • mislead
  • misrepresent
  • misspeak
  • misstate
  • nap
  • occupy
  • overdraw
  • overlooked
  • palter
  • passed
  • perjure
  • pervert
  • phony
  • plant
  • posted
  • prevail
  • prevaricate
  • promote
  • put on
  • put up a front
  • reach
  • recline
  • remain
  • remained
  • repose
  • reposed
  • resided
  • rest
  • rested
  • retire
  • run
  • sat
  • sat tight
  • siesta
  • skulked
  • sleep
  • slinked
  • slunk
  • sneaked
  • snow
  • snuck
  • soft-soap
  • spanned
  • sprawl
  • spread
  • stationed
  • stayed
  • stood
  • stretch
  • stretch out
  • string along
  • stuck around
  • tarried
  • traversed
  • turn in
  • victimize
  • waited

made up

  • abstract
  • accommodate
  • ad-lib
  • ad-libbed
  • assembled
  • atone
  • balance
  • began
  • blend
  • built
  • bury the hatchet
  • came up with
  • carpentered
  • chimeric
  • chimerical
  • coin
  • coined
  • combine
  • combined
  • come to terms
  • complemented
  • complete
  • completed
  • compose
  • composed
  • compound
  • comprised
  • conceived
  • conciliate
  • concoct
  • concocted
  • confected
  • consist
  • constituted
  • construct
  • constructed
  • contrive
  • contrived
  • cook up
  • counterbalance
  • counterpoise
  • countervail
  • created
  • daydreamed
  • daydreamlike
  • deceptive
  • delusional
  • delusive
  • designed
  • devise
  • devised
  • dream up
  • dreamed
  • dreamt
  • drummed up
  • embodied
  • envisaged
  • envisioned
  • epitomized
  • erected
  • established
  • excogitated
  • extemporized
  • fabled
  • fabricate
  • fabricated
  • fabulize
  • fabulous
  • fake it
  • false
  • fanciful
  • fantasied
  • fantasized
  • fantastic
  • fantastical
  • fashion
  • fashioned
  • fathered
  • feigned
  • fictional
  • fictionalize
  • fictitious
  • fictive
  • fill
  • fix
  • forged
  • forgive and forget
  • form
  • formed
  • formulate
  • founded
  • frame
  • framed
  • furnish
  • fuse
  • generated
  • hallucinatory
  • hammered
  • handcrafted
  • hatch
  • hatched
  • hypothetical
  • ideal
  • illusory
  • imaginal
  • imaginary
  • imagined
  • improv
  • improvise
  • improvised
  • inaugurated
  • incarnated
  • include
  • incorporated
  • inexistent
  • initiated
  • innovated
  • instituted
  • integrated
  • invent
  • invented
  • jerry-built
  • join
  • knock off
  • legendary
  • made
  • make
  • make amends
  • make believe
  • make peace
  • make-believe
  • manufactured
  • materialized
  • meet
  • meld
  • mend
  • merge
  • mingle
  • mix
  • molded
  • mythic
  • mythical
  • nonexistent
  • notional
  • offset
  • organized
  • originate
  • originated
  • outweigh
  • pacify
  • personified
  • phantasmagoric
  • phantasmagorical
  • phantasmal
  • phantasmic
  • phantom
  • pictured
  • pieced
  • play by ear
  • prefabricated
  • prepare
  • prepared
  • pretend
  • produced
  • provide
  • put together
  • put up
  • raised
  • ready
  • reared
  • reassembled
  • rebuilt
  • recompense
  • reconstructed
  • redeem
  • redeveloped
  • redress
  • reedified
  • requite
  • retrofit
  • retrofitted
  • romantic
  • set off
  • set up
  • settle
  • shake hands
  • shaped
  • specious
  • storify
  • substantiated
  • supplemented
  • supply
  • theoretic
  • theoretical
  • threw up
  • trump up
  • trumped up
  • trumped-up
  • unbelievable
  • unconvincing
  • united
  • unlikely
  • unreal
  • untrue
  • visionary
  • visioned
  • visualized
  • whip up
  • wing it
  • write

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