Antonyms for fairy story

Grammar : Noun

Definition of fairy story

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 myth : noun fictitious story, often ancient
As in : noun superstition
As in fairy tale : noun children's imaginative story with magical characters
As in fable : noun fantasy, story
As in fabrication : noun lie

Example sentences :

What I write will sound like some fairy story, I fear, to my people at home.
Extract from : « The Soul of a People » by H. Fielding

"It is a fairy story you have given us," said an American officer.
Extract from : « Young Glory and the Spanish Cruiser » by Walter Fenton Mott

It was like a fairy story, and, what was best of all, it continued.
Extract from : « Sara Crewe » by Frances Hodgson Burnett

There is something romantic, like a fairy story, in a treasure cave.
Extract from : « Chatterbox, 1906 » by Various

The play of King Lear is based upon a fable and a fairy story.
Extract from : « William Shakespeare » by John Masefield

While the children are putting on their French cambrics, I will tell you a Fairy story.
Extract from : « Nine Little Goslings » by Susan Coolidge

I want to be thrust into the middle of some fairy story before I die.
Extract from : « The Pagan Madonna » by Harold MacGrath

Was she telling them a fairy story, or teaching them a new game of whist?
Extract from : « The Chautauqua Girls At Home » by Pansy, AKA Isabella M. Alden

Elizabeth had never read a fairy story or any vivid description.
Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old Boston » by Amanda Millie Douglas

I've woven quite a fairy story about those wonderful eyes of hers.
Extract from : « High Noon » by Anonymous

Synonyms for fairy story

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