fabulists
Makers of morals
Fabulists are tellers of fables—writers or speakers who craft moral tales, often featuring animals with human traits.
The word extends to anyone who invents elaborate stories, whether artfully or deceptively.
A fabulist may be celebrated for imagination or condemned for lying: The senator was exposed as a fabulist who fabricated his military record.
Ancient Greek fable writer
- La FontaineFrench fable writer
- novelistWriter of prose narratives
- authorCreator of written works
- essayistAuthor of short prose
poet · playwright · screenwriter · satirist · allegory · parable · apologue · didactic
Tellers of falsehoods
- fabricatorsCreators of falsehoods
- deceiversThose who mislead intentionally
- charlatansPretenders to special knowledge
- impostorsThose falsely claiming identity
hoaxers · tricksters · embellishers · exaggerators · prevaricators · dissemblers · mythomaniacs · spinners
Those who relate tales
- raconteursSkilled tellers of anecdotes
- tale-tellersThose who recount narratives
- griotsHereditary oral historians
- bardsPoet-musicians of old
minstrels · troubadours · folklorists · chroniclers · reciters · moralists
Ancient Greek fable writer
- legendsTraditional stories or icons
- mythologyBody of traditional tales
- pantheonAll gods of a religion
- heroesAdmired courageous figures
gods · titans · centaur · chimera · phoenix · griffin · minotaur · sirens
Able to conceive new ideas
- inventiveShowing original thought
- visionaryImaginative planner of futures
- fancifulImaginatively unrealistic
- whimsicalPlayfully fanciful or erratic
fantastical · original · creative · ingenious · innovative · inspired · unconventional · allegorical
Aesop
Ancient Greek fable writer
- La FontaineFrench fable writer
- novelistWriter of prose narratives
- authorCreator of written works
essayist · poet · playwright · screenwriter · satirist · allegory · parable · apologue · didactic · narrative
liars
Tellers of falsehoods
- fabricatorsCreators of falsehoods
- deceiversThose who mislead intentionally
- charlatansPretenders to special knowledge
impostors · hoaxers · tricksters · embellishers · exaggerators · prevaricators · dissemblers · mythomaniacs · spinners · fibbers
narrators
Those who relate tales
- raconteursSkilled tellers of anecdotes
- tale-tellersThose who recount narratives
- griotsHereditary oral historians
bards · minstrels · troubadours · folklorists · chroniclers · reciters · moralists
Aesop
Ancient Greek fable writer
heroes · gods · titans · centaur · chimera · phoenix · griffin · minotaur · sirens · metamorphosis
imaginative
Able to conceive new ideas
- inventiveShowing original thought
- visionaryImaginative planner of futures
- fancifulImaginatively unrealistic
whimsical · fantastical · original · creative · ingenious · innovative · inspired · unconventional · allegorical · symbolic
- deceiversliar, liars, deceiver, fraud, fake
- fablesAesop, tortoise and hare, hare and tortoise, the boy who cried wolf, wolf in sheep
- storytellersstorytellers, narrator, narrators, tale-teller, tale spinner
- dreamersdreamer, dreamers, daydreamer, daydreamers, visionary
- Ancient GreeksSocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Homer, Pericles
- court rolesjudge, juror, plaintiff, defendant, prosecutor
fabuliststruth-tellers
Those who state facts
historians · documentarians · fact-checkers · straight shooters · chroniclers