Synonyms for story
Another word for story is narrative, tale or narration. Below are 15 synonyms and 30 related words across 6 senses.
Also searched as: storied, stories, storying.
1. noun: a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
- narrative synonyms
- tale synonyms
- narration synonyms
2. noun: a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events
3. noun: a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
- level synonyms
- floor synonyms
- storey
4. noun: a record or narrative description of past events
- history synonyms
- account synonyms
- chronicle synonyms
5. noun: a short account of the news
- report synonyms
- account synonyms
- news report
- write up
6. noun: a trivial lie
- tale synonyms
- fib
- tarradiddle
- taradiddle
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- message synonyms
- content synonyms
- subject matter
- substance synonyms
- tall tale
- fairy story
- folk tale
- fairy tale
- nursery rhyme
- sob story
- sob stuff
- fairytale
- folktale
- tearjerker
- love story
- short story
- plot synonyms
- mystery synonyms
- legend
- fiction
- adventure story
- mystery story
- romance synonyms
- myth
- heroic tale
- fable synonyms
- parable synonyms
- allegory synonyms
- whodunit
- construction synonyms
Story in word games
- Letters
- 5
- Scrabble
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 7
- How common
- Everyday word
- Unscramble STORY
- Is STORY a word?
- Words starting with S
Questions people ask
What is another word for story?
You can say narrative, tale, narration, level or floor instead of story. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program".
What is the opposite of story?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for story; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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