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FICTIONAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fictional mean? 

FICTIONAL (adjective)
  The adjective FICTIONAL has 2 senses:

1. related to or involving literary fictionplay

2. formed or conceived by the imaginationplay

  Familiarity information: FICTIONAL used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FICTIONAL (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Related to or involving literary fiction

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

a fictional treatment of the train robbery

Antonym:

nonfictional (not fictional)

Pertainym:

fiction (a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact)

Derivation:

fiction (a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Formed or conceived by the imagination

Synonyms:

fabricated; fancied; fictional; fictitious

Context example:

a fictional character

Similar:

unreal (lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria)

Derivation:

fiction (a deliberately false or improbable account)


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