MEANING
1. To converse or exchange talk, especially informally.
2. To produce an inaccurate recollection or account without recognizing that it is false.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- confabulate with friends
- confabulate over tea
On the page
They confabulated over tea while the formal meeting proceeded next door.
The old friends confabulated until the attendant extinguished the lamps.
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Word forms
- Base
- confabulate
- Past tense
- confabulated
- Past participle
- confabulated
- Present participle
- confabulating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- confabulate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are confabulating
- Present perfect
- have/has confabulated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been confabulating
- Past
- confabulated
- Past continuous
- was/were confabulating
- Past perfect
- had confabulated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been confabulating
- Future
- will confabulate
- Future continuous
- will be confabulating
- Future perfect
- will have confabulated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been confabulating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: confabulate; confabulates; confabulated; confabulated; confabulating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: confabulates.
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