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narrative

/ˈnɛɹ.ə.tɪv/noun, adjective3 syllables

Narrative means: 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.

Synonyms for narrative5

noun, as in 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

narration, story, tale

adjective, as in consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story

communicative, communicatory

What does narrative mean?2

noun

1

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”

adjective

1

consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story“narrative poetry”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Narrative in a sentence

  • Even his everyday speech was an off-the-cuff, tangential, disjointed narrative.papabear
  • That is the official narrative, but what is the truth?maaster
  • That is not what the narrative is about.CM
  • Intuition and gut instinct tell me that something doesn't add up in his narrative.Nuel
  • It was his narrative that bored me to death.CK
  • It was the teacher's narrative that bored me to death.unknown
  • It was his lengthy narrative that bored me to death.CM
  • She gave a narrative of her strange experience.CM

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of narrative

as a noun

plural
narratives