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Synonyms for potboiler
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : pot-boi-ler |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɒtˌbɔɪ lər |
Top 10 synonyms for potboiler
- adage
- alibi
- allegory
- apologue
- beat
- best-seller
- boiler plate
- book
- bromide
- buzzword
- chestnut
- chiller
- chronicle
- chronology
- cliché
- cliff-hanger
- cliffhanger
- cloak and dagger
- clothesline
- comedy
- commonplace
- concoction
- confusion
- conte
- corn
- counterword
- crock
- curtain-raiser
- description
- detail
- dilemma
- doubt
- drama
- eagerness
- entertainment
- epic
- evenness
- expectancy
- expectation
- fable
- fabrication
- fairy tale
- falsehood
- familiar tune
- fancy
- fantasy
- farce
- feature
- fib
- fiction
- figment of imagination
- fish story
- flatness
- flop
- folktale
- gag
- grabber
- hackneyed saying
- hesitancy
- hesitation
- high camp
- history
- hit
- hokum
- hooey
- imagination
- impatience
- improvisation
- inanity
- indecision
- indecisiveness
- information
- insecurity
- insipidity
- invention
- irresolution
- legend
- lie
- line
- long and short of it
- mask
- memoir
- misrepresentation
- monotony
- motto
- musical
- myth
- narration
- narrative
- news item
- nonfiction
- novel
- novelette
- novella
- old chestnut
- old saw
- old story
- one-act
- opera
- page-turner
- paperback
- parable
- performance
- perplexity
- platitude
- plot
- potboiler
- prevarication
- prosaicism
- prosaism
- prose
- proverb
- recital
- record
- recount
- relation
- report
- romance
- rubber stamp
- saga
- saw
- saying
- scoop
- sea story
- sequel
- serial
- shibboleth
- show
- slogan
- smash
- smash hit
- smoke
- song
- song and dance
- spiel
- stage show
- stale saying
- statement
- stereotype
- story
- storytelling
- string
- tag
- tale
- tall story
- tall tale
- tension
- terminological inexactitude
- theatrical
- threadbare phrase
- thriller
- tragedy
- trite remark
- triteness
- triviality
- truism
- turkey
- uncertainty
- untruth
- vapid expression
- vapidity
- verbiage
- version
- wavering
- whopper
- work of imagination
- yarn
Définition of potboiler
Origin :- also pot-boiler, 1864 in the figurative literary sense, from pot (n.1) + agent noun from boil (v.). The notion is of something one writes solely to put food on the table.
- As in narrative : noun story, tale
- As in novel : noun fictional book
- As in platitude : noun dull, overused saying
- As in play : noun theater piece
- As in story : noun account, news
- As in suspense : noun anticipation
- As in yarn : noun story, often long and made-up
- As in cliché : noun overused, hackneyed phrase
- As in fiction : noun made-up story
- Fanny's First Play, being but a potboiler, needs no preface.
- Extract from : « Fanny's First Play » by George Bernard Shaw
Antonyms for potboiler
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