fabulist.

1. A person who writes or tells fables.

2. A person who invents untrue stories or accounts.

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Words that belong together

• a celebrated fabulist
• a modern fabulist

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The fabulist gave the fox motives the listeners recognized in themselves.

A modern fabulist used the factory rather than the forest as her setting.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Singular fabulist; plural fabulists. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.