narrative

1. 1.

   consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story

   “narrative poetry”

   Similarcommunicative

Other forms of narrative

plural

narratives·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about narrative

What does narrative mean?

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". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in narrative?

narrative has 3 syllables: nar-ra-tive. The stress falls on "nar". In IPA it is /ˈnæɹətɪv/.

What is another word for narrative?

Close synonyms include narration, story, tale. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is narrative a common word?

narrative is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.