Antonyms for novel
ˈnɒv əlnov·el

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. novel

   Fiction is now chiefly used of a prose work in narrative form in which the characters are partly or wholly imaginary, and which is designed to portray human life, with or without a practical lesson; a romance portrays what is picturesque or striking, as a mere fiction may not do; novel is a general name for any continuous fictitious narrative, especially a love-story; fiction and novel are used with little difference of meaning, except that novel characterizes a work in which the emotional element is especially prominent. The moral of the fable is expressed formally; the lesson of the fiction, if any, is inwrought. A fiction is studied; a myth grows up without intent. A legend may be true, but can not be historically verified; a myth has been received as true at some time, but is now known to be false. A fabrication is designed to deceive; it is a less odious word than falsehood, but is really stronger, as a falsehood may be a sudden unpremeditated statement, while a fabrication is a series of statements carefully studied and fitted together in order to deceive; the falsehood is all false; the fabrication may mingle the true with the false. A figment is something imaginary which the one who utters it may or may not believe to be true; we say, "That statement is a figment of his imagination." The story may be either true or false, and covers the various senses of all the words in the group. Apologue, a word simply transferred from Greek into English, is the same as fable. Compare ALLEGORY.

   Antonyms:
   certainty, fact, history, literalness, reality, truth, verity

   Synonyms:
   allegory, apologue, fable, fabrication, falsehood, fiction, figment, invention, legend, myth, romance, story

Matched Categories

1. • Fiction

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.3 / 8 votes

1. novelnoun

   an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story

   Antonyms:
   unoriginal, old

2. noveladjective

   a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction

   "his bookcases were filled with nothing but novels"; "he burned all the novels"

   Antonyms:
   old, unoriginal

3. fresh, new, noveladjective

   original and of a kind not seen before

   "the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem"

   Antonyms:
   unoriginal, old

   Synonyms:
   tonic, impertinent, wise, bracing, young, newfangled, refreshing, sassy, new, unused, fresh, new(a), raw, unexampled, smart, reinvigorated, unfermented, sweet, saucy, clean, impudent, refreshed, invigorated, brisk, overbold, refreshful

4. novel, refreshingadjective

   pleasantly new or different

   "common sense of a most refreshing sort"

   Antonyms:
   unoriginal, old

   Synonyms:
   refreshing, tonic, refreshful, bracing, new, brisk, fresh

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:3.3 / 3 votes

1. noveladjective

   Synonyms:
   new, recent, fresh, unusual, rare, unique, innovative

2. novelnoun

   Synonyms:
   fiction, romance, story, tale

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. NOVEL

   Synonyms:
   Nitroglycerin as an Option: Value in Early Bone Loss

How to use novel in a sentence?

1. Hassan Zaraket:

   This remains a novel virus and despite the fast-growing body of science about it, there are still things that are unknown. Whether our predictions hold true or not remains to be seen in the future. But we think its highly likely, given what we know so far, COVID-19 will eventually become seasonal, like other coronaviruses.

2. Larry Kramer:

   I told you so to the community who had so violently refused his novel...which turned out to be prophetic.

3. Daithi Stone:

   We’re not used to heat waves … over here, it’s a novel concept. And I think we may get a fright sometime in the not too distant future.

4. Linsey Marr:

   We're not going to eradicate this coronavirus like we've done with smallpox ; it is something that I think is going to settle into a more seasonal pattern, like the flu and colds... but right now, because it's novel and so many people are not immune to it, it's really ripping through the population. But I think five years from now, we will have much greater immunity either through vaccination or natural infection.

5. Panagis Galiatsatos:

   These are not innocent chemicals that are in the electronic cigarette pods and the health ramifications of what we're going to be seeing is a lot of rather uncommon diseases, electronic vaping acute lung injury : that's a whole new novel lung disease that we have now.

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