Word Meanings - NARRATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of or pertaining to narration; relating to the particulars of an event or transaction. 2. Apt or inclined to relate stories, or to tell particulars of events; story-telling; garrulous. But wise through time, and narrative with age. Pope.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of NARRATIVE)

• Account
• Narration
• report
• rehearsal
• story
• statement
• narrative
• recital
• relation
• description
• motive
• value
• importance
• advantage
• ground
• reason
• profit
• Memoir
• chronicle
• record
• register
• journal
• life

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of NARRATIVE)

• Disesteem
• misestimate
• mystify
• understate
• undervalue
• perplex
• darken
• Obliviate
• silentiate
• suppress
• Silence
• hush
• misreport
• misrepresent
• miarelate
• falsify
• Miscompute
• disesteem
• disregard
• vilipend
• underrate
• underestimate
• despise
• contemn
• cheapen
• vilify

Related words: (words related to NARRATIVE)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• CHRONICLE
  The two canonical books of the Old Testament in which immediately follow 2 Kings. Syn. - Register; record; annals. See History. (more info) 1. An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time. 2. A narrative of
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• ACCOUNTANTSHIP
  The office or employment of an accountant.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• REASONING
  1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.
• MISCOMPUTE
  To compute erroneously. Sir T. Browne.
• ACCOUNTANCY
  The art or employment of an accountant.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• NARRATION
  That part of a discourse which recites the time, manner, or consequences of an action, or simply states the facts connected with the subject. Syn. -- Account; recital; rehearsal; relation; description; explanation; detail; narrative; story; tale;
• MISREPORT
  To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of. Locke.
• PROFIT
  1. Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods. Let no man anticipate uncertain
• DISESTEEMER
  One who disesteems. Boyle.
• REASONLESS
  1. Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind. Shak. 2. Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak.
• REASONABLY
  1. In a reasonable manner. 2. Moderately; tolerably. "Reasonably perfect in the language." Holder.
• PROFITABLE
  Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession. What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor.
• REGISTERING
  Recording; -- applied to instruments; having an apparatus which registers; as, a registering thermometer. See Recording.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• UNPERPLEX
  To free from perplexity. Donne.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• MANUMOTIVE
  Movable by hand.