narrative
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
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
Types & categories
- subject matter hypernym
- tearjerker hyponym
- tall tale hyponym
- folktale hyponym
- sob story hyponym
- fairytale hyponym
- nursery rhyme hyponym
- Canterbury Tales instance hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 adjective
consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story
narrative poetry
Related & opposite
- recount derivation
- communicatory similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | tell |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | recount |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | narrate |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | subject matter |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | tearjerker |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | tall tale |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | folktale |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | sob story |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | fairytale |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | nursery rhyme |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Canterbury Tales |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | recount |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | communicatory |