Synonyms for narrative
ˈnær ə tɪvnar·ra·tive

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1. narrative

   History is a systematic record of past events. Annals and chronicles relate events with little regard to their relative importance, and with complete subserviency to their succession in time. Annals are yearly records; chronicles follow the order of time. Both necessarily lack emphasis, selection, and perspective. Archives are public records, which may be annals, or chronicles, or deeds of property, etc. Memoirs generally record the lives of individuals or facts pertaining to individual lives. A biography is distinctively a written account of one person's life and actions; an autobiography is a biography written by the person whose life it records. Annals, archives, chronicles, biographies, and memoirs and other records furnish the materials of history. History recounts events with careful attention to their importance, their mutual relations, their causes and consequences, selecting and grouping events on the ground of interest or importance. History is usually applied to such an account of events affecting communities and nations, tho sometimes we speak of the history of a single eminent life. Compare RECORD.

   See synonyms for FICTION.

   Synonyms:
   account, annals, archives, autobiography, biography, chronicle, history, memoir, memorial, muniment, narration, recital, record, register, story

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1. narrative, narration, story, taleadjective

   a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

   "his narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children"

   Synonyms:
   tarradiddle, account, chronicle, tale, storey, report, recital, story, yarn, taradiddle, news report, write up, level, floor, narration, history, fib

   Antonyms:
   incommunicative, uncommunicative

2. narrativeadjective

   consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story

   "narrative poetry"

   Antonyms:
   uncommunicative, incommunicative

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1. narrativenoun

   Synonyms:
   narration, relation, tale, account, recital, rehearsal, description, story, history, chronicle

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1. narrativenoun

   Synonyms:
   narration, account, portrayal, story, tale

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1. List of paraphrases for "narrative":

   narration, descriptive, description, narratives, story, storytelling

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1. Bill Miller:

   This theory accepts that the Darwinism that is fundamentally based on entire organisms in competition with each other is incomplete, the real narrative that really counts is unseen to our eyes. You have two moose locking horns over a female. It seems like that is the full depiction of the story of evolution, right there. It’s really just a side show. The real narrative is immunology, the cellular dynamics within the organisms, the collaborative relationships between all of our cells. These cells have their own cognitive capacity, with the linkages and partnerships between microbes.

2. Oliver Sacks:

   To be ourselves we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must “recollect” ourselves, recollect the inner drama, the narrative, of ourselves. A man needs such a narrative, a continuous inner narrative, to maintain his identity, his self.

3. James Scott:

   The American renaissance begins with the unified revolutionary act of turning off and smashing the television, rejecting Hollywood on all fronts and refusing to intellectually ingest the toxic force feed of the establishment minority’s matrix narrative.

4. Christopher Heywood:

   [A] literary feat of objective narration by an Afrikaner writer was Sword in the Sand (1969), Johannes Meintjes’ narration of Gideon Scheepers’ death by summary trial and execution. In Meintjes’ hands, history enters the realm of epic narrative

5. Ed Stetzer:

   We as Christians, we're not driven by fear. We're driven by faith. If our narrative is defined by fear and not by faith, it's not a Christian narrative.