What is "fairytale" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "fairytale": a story about fairies; told to amuse children

Noun

Meaning of "fairytale": an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse

Noun

Synonyms:

whimsical, imaginative, fantastic, fantastical, fictional, preposterous, offbeat, unreal, extravagant, absurd, bizarre, aerial, capricious, chimerical, curious, fabulous, fictitious, flaky, floating, ideal, illusory, imagined, incredible, kinky, legendary, mythical, on cloud nine, pie in the sky, pipe dream, poetic, shadowy, visionary, wild, fictive, notional, suppositious, dreamlike, blue sky, castles in the air, fairy-tale, fancied, exotic, whimsical, glamorous, amorous, fascinating, colorful, exciting, fantastic, charming, dreamy, tender, erotic, fanciful, maudlin, corny, mysterious, nostalgic, passionate, adventurous, utopian, wild, visionary, daring, chimerical, chivalrous, enchanting, extravagant, fond, idyllic, impractical, loving, mushy, picturesque, poetic, quixotic, sloppy, starry-eyed, unrealistic, bathetic, soppy, tear-jerking, fairy-tale, lovey-dovey, syrupy, whimsical, storied, allegorical, mythic, unreal, fictitious, fabled, legendary, fanciful, imaginary, chimerical, fabulous, fantasy, made-up, nonexistent, pretended, traditional, untrue, visionary, fictive, invented, mythological, supposititious, false, created, fabricated, fairy-tale, folkloric, whimsical, imaginary, fanciful, legendary, allegorical, chimerical, fabled, fabulous, fantasy, fictitious, fictive, invented, made-up, mythologic, mythological, nonexistent, pretended, storied, supposititious, traditional, unreal, untrue, visionary, created, fabricated, fairy-tale, false, folkloric, allegorical, chimerical, fabled, fabulous, fanciful, fantasy, fictitious, fictive, imaginary, invented, legendary, made-up, mythic, mythological, nonexistent, pretended, storied, supposititious, traditional, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical, created, fabricated, fairy-tale, false, folkloric, allegorical, chimerical, fabled, fabulous, fanciful, fantasy, fictitious, fictive, imaginary, invented, legendary, made-up, mythic, mythologic, nonexistent, pretended, storied, supposititious, traditional, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical, created, fabricated, fairy-tale, false, folkloric,

Antonyms:

sensible, usual, real, sincere, unimaginative, unromantic, reasonable, normal, grave, ordinary, serious, unfanciful, usual, indifferent, boring, repulsive, uninteresting, unromantic, uncaring, real, unimaginative, pragmatic, familiar, ordinary, dull, cold, cool, frigid, plain, unenthusiastic, realistic, real, factual, sincere, genuine, true, factual, real, true,