narrative
adjEtymology
Borrowed from Middle Scots narrative, nerrative, from Middle French narratif, from Latin narrātīvus, from narrō (“to narrate”). By surface analysis, Latin narr- + -ate + -ive.
- derived from narrātīvus
- derived from narratif
- borrowed from narrative
Definitions
Telling a story.
Overly talkative
Overly talkative; garrulous.
- But wise through time, and narrative with age.
Of or relating to narration.
- the narrative thrust of a film
- There is a deep divide in our species. On one side, the narrators: those who are indeed intensely narrative, self-storying, Homeric, in their sense of life and self, whether they look to the past or the future.
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The systematic recitation of an event or series of events.
That which is narrated.
A representation of an event or story in a way to promote a certain point of view.
- changing, controlling the narrative
- Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.
- [Alexandra] Bell challenges the dominant coverage of Brown’s killing with the aim of introducing “a perspective and a narrative which is probably how a lot of people from these communities saw it go down”.
A manner of conveying a story, fictional or otherwise, in a body of work.
- The plot is full of holes, but the narrative is extremely compelling.
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Derived
grounded narrative inquiry, narrative arc, narrative art, narratively, narrative present, narrative structure, narrative verdict, narrativise, narrativization, narrativize, nonnarrative, pseudonarrative, seminarrative, semionarrative, antenarrative, antinarrative, counternarrative, cybernarrative, geonarrative, grand narrative, ludonarrative, metanarrative, micronarrative, multinarrative, narrative hook, narrativeless, narrativist, narrativistic, narrativity, narreme, self-narrative, sequential art narrative, subnarrative
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at narrative. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at narrative. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at narrative
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA