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CANARD Synonyms

There are 17 synonyms of the word canard. (exact relations)
There are 3 hypernyms of the word canard. (close relations)
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hoax
nounn
noun

• something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

verb

• subject to a playful hoax or joke

deceit
nounn
noun

• the quality of being fraudulent

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

deception
nounn
noun

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

fable
nounn
noun

• a deliberately false or improbable account

• a short moral story (often with animal characters)

• a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

fabrication
nounn
noun

• a deliberately false or improbable account

• writing in a fictional form

• the act of making something (a product) from raw materials

• the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)

• the deliberate act of deviating from the truth

falsehood
nounn
noun

• a false statement

• the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting

falsity
nounn
noun

• the state of being false or untrue

• a false statement

fib
verb, nounv, n
noun

• a trivial lie

verb

• tell a relatively insignificant lie

fiction
noun, adjectiven, adj
noun

• a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

• a deliberately false or improbable account

lie
verb, nounv, n
noun

• a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth

• Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968)

• position or manner in which something is situated

verb

• be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position

• be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position

• originate (in)

• be and remain in a particular state or condition

• tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive

• have a place in relation to something else

• assume a reclining position

myth
nounn
noun

• a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people

pretense
nounn
noun

• the act of giving a false appearance

• pretending with intention to deceive

• imaginative intellectual play

• a false or unsupportable quality

• an artful or simulated semblance

rumor
nounn
noun

• gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth

verb

• tell or spread rumors

sham
nounn
noun

• something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

• a person who makes deceitful pretenses

adjective satellite

• adopted in order to deceive

verb

• make a pretence of

• make believe with the intent to deceive

story
verb, nounv, n
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

• a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events

• a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale

• a record or narrative description of past events

• a short account of the news

• a trivial lie

tale
nounn
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

• a trivial lie

untruth
nounn
noun

• a false statement

Best Hypernyms For CANARD

Here is a list of related hypernyms for canard, these are close relations that fall within the same topic. Most relevant words are highlighted and in order.
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fable fabrication fiction

Alternatives for HOAX

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