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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 fiction
2. formed or conceived by the imagination
Familiarity information: FICTIONAL used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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