Define the word fictional"Fictional" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Fictional \Fic"tion*al\, a.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious;
romantic."Fictional rather than historical." --Latham.
[1913 Webster]
"fictional" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
fictional
adj 1: related to or involving literary fiction; "clever fictional
devices"; "a fictional treatment of the train robbery"
[ant: nonfictional]
2: 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"
[syn: fabricated, fancied, fictitious, invented, made-up]
"fictional" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
39 Moby Thesaurus words for "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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