| 单词 | confabulate |
| 释义 | confabulate[ kuhn-fab-yuh-leyt ] / kənˈfæb yəˌleɪt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR confabulate ON THESAURUS.COM verb (used without object), con·fab·u·lat·ed, con·fab·u·lat·ing.to converse informally; chat. Psychiatry. to replace a gap in one's memory by a falsification that one believes to be true; engage in confabulation. Origin of confabulateFirst recorded in 1600–10; from Latin confābulātus (past participle of confābulārī “to talk together, discuss”); see con-, fable, -ate1 OTHER WORDS FROM confabulatecon·fab·u·la·tor, nounWords nearby confabulateConestoga wagon, coney, Coney Island, conf., confab, confabulate, confabulation, confarreation, confect, confection, confectionary Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for confabulateBritish Dictionary definitions for confabulateconfabulate / (kənˈfæbjʊˌleɪt) / verb (intr)to talk together; converse; chat psychiatry to replace the gaps left by a disorder of the memory with imaginary remembered experiences consistently believed to be trueSee also paramnesia Derived forms of confabulateconfabulation, nounconfabulator, nounconfabulatory, adjectiveWord Origin for confabulateC17: from Latin confābulārī, from fābulārī to talk, from fābula a story; see fable Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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