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parable has 3 distinct synonyms spread across 1 of its 2 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
a short moral story (often with animal characters)
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for parable come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
(New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message
“the parable of the prodigal son”