Synonyms for narrative
ˈnær ə tɪvnar·ra·tive

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1. narrative

   History is a systematic record of past events. Annals and chronicles relate events with little regard to their relative importance, and with complete subserviency to their succession in time. Annals are yearly records; chronicles follow the order of time. Both necessarily lack emphasis, selection, and perspective. Archives are public records, which may be annals, or chronicles, or deeds of property, etc. Memoirs generally record the lives of individuals or facts pertaining to individual lives. A biography is distinctively a written account of one person's life and actions; an autobiography is a biography written by the person whose life it records. Annals, archives, chronicles, biographies, and memoirs and other records furnish the materials of history. History recounts events with careful attention to their importance, their mutual relations, their causes and consequences, selecting and grouping events on the ground of interest or importance. History is usually applied to such an account of events affecting communities and nations, tho sometimes we speak of the history of a single eminent life. Compare RECORD.

   See synonyms for FICTION.

   Synonyms:
   account, annals, archives, autobiography, biography, chronicle, history, memoir, memorial, muniment, narration, recital, record, register, story

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1. narrative, narration, story, taleadjective

   a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

   "his narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children"

   Synonyms:
   tarradiddle, account, chronicle, tale, storey, report, recital, story, yarn, taradiddle, news report, write up, level, floor, narration, history, fib

   Antonyms:
   incommunicative, uncommunicative

2. narrativeadjective

   consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story

   "narrative poetry"

   Antonyms:
   uncommunicative, incommunicative

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1. narrativenoun

   Synonyms:
   narration, relation, tale, account, recital, rehearsal, description, story, history, chronicle

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1. narrativenoun

   Synonyms:
   narration, account, portrayal, story, tale

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1. List of paraphrases for "narrative":

   narration, descriptive, description, narratives, story, storytelling

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1. Niyi Akinmolayan:

   But he still didn't get it until I kind of changed the narrative and said the coronavirus actually looks like a big monster and it is out there in the street and if you go it will catch you.

2. Jen Smyers:

   During the President Donald Trump administration, there's been this narrative that Republicans don't support resettlement, but it's just not the case, you can't turn off the light switch and turn off bipartisan support that's been built up for decades.

3. Professor Huang:

   It is no surprise that the government seeks to control related scientific research so that the findings do not challenge its own narrative on the origin of the virus and the government response to the crisis, the danger is that when scientific research is subject to the needs of those in power, it further undermines the credibility of the government narrative, making accusations of underreporting and misinformation more convincing.

4. Elise Stefanik:

   Joe Biden is desperately trying to change the narrative away from the crises of his own making with less than one week before Election Day, he is woefully out-of-touch with the American people who care about what is happening in their communities as they suffer from an inflation crisis, an energy crisis, crime crisis, and border crisis because of one-party Democrat rule.

5. Tom Hanks:

   I will tell you, in' Forrest Gump,' all the stuff that we shot on the park bench in Savannah, Georgia... we were just shooting fodder for a possible narrative piece of it.