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fictional
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective fictional has 2 senses
- fictional(a = adj.pert) Array - related to or involving literary fiction; "clever fictional devices"; "a fictional treatment of the train robbery" Derived form noun fiction1
- fictional(s = adj.all) fabricated, fancied, fictitious - formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character" Derived form noun fiction2
Antonym: nonfictional
CIDE DICTIONARY
fictional, a.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic. Latham. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
fictional
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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