fabular

American  

[fab-yuh-ler] / ˈfæb yə lər /

adjective

1. of or relating to a story, novel, or the like written in the form of a fable.

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Etymology

Origin of fabular

1675–85; < Latin fābulāris, equivalent to fābul ( a ) fable + -āris -ar ¹

Example Sentences

The book’s last and shortest entry, the fabular “The Old Man in the Piazza,” makes for a somewhat slight coda.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2025

The fabular quality that makes Green’s clothes feel like plausible garb for the interstellar colonists of the early twenty-second century has also endeared them to the pop stars of the early twenty-first.

From The New Yorker • May 25, 2017

The photograph is from the late 1960s, but its form is so iconic and its atmosphere so fabular that it could have been made a hundred years earlier.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2017

Groff and Phillips especially share a knack for fabular, dreamlike writing.

From Slate • Dec. 3, 2015

The fact that his mode was satirical and fabular – fabular, "to speak, to give voice" – places it among the great books.

From The Guardian • Apr. 30, 2010