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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How to use narrative in a sentence?

1. Snohomish County Sheriff Adam Fortney:

   I think there was a rush, you know, the police are racist, the police are doing bad things, i think the narrative that was being pushed is a false narrative.

2. Basil Smikle Jr.:

   As long as he keeps presenting that image and that symbol of what America is and should be … then I think he has a winning message and narrative there.

3. Peter Neumann:

   It's not only about reducing the supply of extremist material on the internet, it's also about increasing the amount of counter-extremist messages that directly challenge the extremist narrative, you have to accept that you will never be able to take everything down.

4. Brian Stelter:

   There's this narrative out there [that] CNN is failing in the ratings and that that must be why Zucker was pushed out. And I think that's nuts.

5. Seth Dillon:

   We don’t concede for a moment that we are speaking hate speech here, we’re punching back, not down, and we’re poking holes in the popular narrative.