Antonyms for fairy-tale

Grammar : Adj, noun

Definition of fairy-tale

Origin : "oral narrative centered on magical tests, quests, and transformations," 1749, translating French Conte de feés of Madame d'Aulnois (1698, translated into English 1699). As an adjective (also fairytale), attested by 1963.

As in romantic : adj sentimental, idealistic
As in mythical : adj make-believe
As in mythic : adj mythical
As in mythologic : adj mythical
As in mythological : adj mythical
As in fanciful : adj imaginary, romantic
As in fairy tale : noun children's imaginative story with magical characters

Example sentences :

The tale of the resources of California—vegetable and mineral—is a fairy-tale.
Extract from : « American Notes » by Rudyard Kipling

Our fairy-tale presents these events in their legendary transformation.
Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various

Thrones tumble down and crowns are offered like a fairy-tale.
Extract from : « A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume II » by Mrs. Humphry Ward

He must have seemed to her a figure of romance, a prince out of a fairy-tale.
Extract from : « The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series » by Rafael Sabatini

The value of the fairy-tale and the wonder-tale is that they tell about the magic of living.
Extract from : « Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) » by Various

All that's a fairy-tale—trees being dangerous in a thunder-storm!
Extract from : « Disowned » by Victor Endersby

But what concerned me most was the failure of the fairy-tale glamour.
Extract from : « Tales Of Hearsay » by Joseph Conrad

And life not being a fairy-tale the improbability of the event almost shocked me.
Extract from : « 'Twixt Land & Sea » by Joseph Conrad

For you must remember that this is a fairy-tale and all fairy-tales have a good ending.
Extract from : « The Romance of an Old Fool » by Roswell Field

"It's like a fairy-tale, and going into the gnome's hill," fluttered Magsie.
Extract from : « A harum-scarum schoolgirl » by Angela Brazil

Synonyms for fairy-tale

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