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FICTIONAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Formed or conceived by the imagination
Example:
a fictional character
Synonyms:
fabricated; fancied; fictional; fictitious
Classified under:
Similar:
unreal (lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria)
Derivation:
fiction (a deliberately false or improbable account)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Related to or involving literary fiction
Example:
a fictional treatment of the train robbery
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
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)
