Meaning of confabulist | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who confabulates; a companion with whom one chats or confers.
2. One who invents elaborate stories.

Examples

“I knew him only as a grey-bearded sage — he was my father's friend and close confabulist! " said Hueline, with a slight smile.”

“... his heaven—the organ and confabulist of angels and spirits, their ideal brother.”

“He's bonded Monte Alban guide, a sidewalk Sophist, Palenque wizard, brother in arms and drink confabulist, Mixtec and Zapotec, globetrotting cosmologist with answers for everything in his bag of tricks: solving problems for men floating belly-up, for doubting warriors who now scratch their heads.”

“The confabulist, who simply cannot resist making up stories, wastes an enormous amount of other people's time.”

“Oh — well, you see, that part's true. But not everything I say is true. Part of my illness. I'm a confabulist.”

“The confabulist loves the tools of her trade, the stream of words that is a river of stars flowing through the knowable universe, but words are only anthills and mountains, aspects from which the river is seen.”

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