confabulate
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 confabulate
1Other words from confabulate
- con·fab·u·la·tor, noun
Words Nearby confabulate
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How to use confabulate in a sentence
She does not break the thread of a conversation by irrelevant questions or confabulate in an undertone with the servants.
Worldly Ways and Byways | Eliot GregoryBirds of a feather not only flock together, but, as every ornithologist knows full well, can confabulate.
Country Rambles, and Manchester Walks and Wild Flowers | Leo H. GrindonEden is not yet returned from Woodstock; I will confabulate with him.
Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2) | Edward GibbonIn this manner, said my master, did the parson and I confabulate; and I set him down at his lodgings in the village.
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded | Samuel RichardsonAn' whut dem six ghostes do but stand round an' confabulate?
Humorous Ghost Stories | Dorothy Scarborough
British Dictionary definitions for confabulate
/ (kənˈfæbjʊˌleɪt) /
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 true: See also paramnesia
Origin of confabulate
1Derived forms of confabulate
- confabulation, noun
- confabulator, noun
- confabulatory, adjective
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