Confabulate

Definition: Confabulate

Confabulate

Verb

1. Unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory (psychiatry).

2. Chew the fat; shoot the breeze.

3. Have a conference in order to talk something over; "We conferred about a plan of action".

Date "confabulate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1881. (references)

Etymology: Confabulate \Con*fab"u*late\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Confabulated; present participle verb or noun Confabulating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Confabulate

Synonyms: chaffer (v), chat (v), chatter (v), chitchat (v), claver (v), confab (v), confer (v), consult (v), gossip (v), jaw (v), natter (v), visit (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Conversation	Verb: talk together, converse, confabulate; hold on a conversation, carry on a conversation, join in a conversation, engage in a conversation; put in a word; shine in conversation; bandy words; parley; palaver; chat, gossip, tattle; prate; (loquacity); powwow.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Confabulate

English words defined with "confabulate": Confabulated, Confabulating. (references)

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "confabulate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		bisedoj (chat, confab, converse, discourse, have a talk, socialize, speak, talk). (various references)

Bulgarian		разговарям интимно. (various references)

Czech		povídat si (chat, gossip). (various references)

Greek		κουβεντιάζω (chat, confab, have a chat, rag, speak, spiel, talk), συνομιλώ (converse, hold a conversation, speak with, talk). (various references)

Hebrew		לב�"ות (concoct, fabricate, feign, invent, make up), לב�"וא (devise, fabricate). (various references)

Hungarian		cseveg (chat, chatter, to chat, to chirp, to shoot the breeze, to smatter). (various references)

Italian		confabulare (collogue). (various references)

Pig Latin		onfabulatecay

Portuguese		conversar (chat, collogue, converse, discourse, mag, speak, talk, to converse, yarn), confabular, palestrar (converse). (various references)

Romanian		sta la taifas (Cose, coze), sta de vorbã (chat, converse, talk, tell), pãlãvrãgi (babble, chatter, crack, gossip, humbug, jabber, prate, twaddle), discuta (agitate, argue, converse, debate upon, deliberate, discuss, dispute, go through, haggle, impugn, moot, negotiate, powwow, question, reason, speak, talk, talk over). (various references)

Russian		разговаривать (speak, talk). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		razgovarati (chat, converse), ćaskati (chat, chitchat, make small talk). (various references)

Spanish		conferenciar (confer, lecture, powwow). (various references)

Swedish		småprata (chat, chit chat), samtala (converse, discourse, talk). (various references)

Turkish		sohbet etmek (chat, commune, confab, converse, have a chat, have a talk, socialize), konuşmak (bespeak, chin, confab, discourse, have a talk, have a talk with, have speech with, parley, pipe up, reason, speak, speak to, talk, talk to smb.), başbaşa vermek. (various references)

Ukrainian		розмовляти (converse, discourse, tongue). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "confabulate": confabulated, confabulates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Confabulate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: contabulate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "confabulate" (pronounced 'Con*fab"u*late'): Absquatulate, Acidulate, Aculeolate, Adulate, Alveolate, Ambulate, Amylate, Apostolate, Appendiculate, Aristulate, Assibilate, Assimulate, Astipulate, Avolate, Barbellate, Barbellulate, Belate, Biarticulate, Biauriculate, Biflabellate, Biflagellate, Bifoliolate, Bimaculate, Binoculate, Binoxalate, Binucleolate, Biocellate, Bipupillate, Bombilate, Boncilate, Bookplate, Bracteolate, Breastplate, Bullate, Bursiculate, Calceolate, Campanulate, Cancellate, Cantillate, Capitellate, Capreolate, Caprylate, Catenulate, Cephalate, Chelate, Chocolate, Cholate, Circumambulate, Circumundulate, Clavellate. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-f-l-n-o-t-u"
	-1 letter: outbalance.
	-2 letters: countable, unactable.
	-3 letters: atonable, bluecoat, canulate, conflate, falconet, lacunate, oceanaut, outfable, tenacula.
	-4 letters: abalone, abluent, actable, balance, baneful, boatful, butanol, canulae, confute, factual, faculae, falcate, flounce, lactean, lactone, lacunae, noctule, notable, outface, tableau, tunable.
	-5 letters: ablate, ablaut, acetal, actual, acuate, afloat, anlace, atonal, bacula, bateau, beacon, befoul, boatel, boucle, bounce, butane, cablet, caftan.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-e-f-l-n-o-t-u"
	+1 letter: confabulated, confabulates.
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Confabulate

Definition: Confabulate

Confabulate

Verb

Synonyms: Confabulate

Synonyms within Context: Confabulate

Conversation

Crosswords: Confabulate

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Confabulate

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INDEX

Expression	Frequency per Day
confabulate	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.