Meaning of FICTIONAL
| Pronunciation: | | 'fikshunl
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- [adj] formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"; "used fictitious names"; "a made-up story"
- [adj] related to or involving literary fiction; "clever fictional devices"; "a fictional treatment of the train robbery"
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| | Synonyms: | | fabricated, fancied, fictitious, invented, made-up, unreal |
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| | Antonyms: | | nonfictional | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fic"tion*al\, a.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious;
romantic.``Fictional rather than historical.'' --Latham.
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| | Related Terms: | | allegoric, chimerical, concocted, cooked-up, fabricated, fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, fictitious, fictive, figmental, forged, hatched, illusory, imaginary, invented, legendary, made-up, make-believe, manufactured, mythic, mythical, mythicized, mythified, mythological, mythopoeic, mythopoetic, nonactual, nonfactual, nonrealistic, parabolic, put-up, romantic, romanticized, supposititious, trumped-up, unreal |
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