Fictional

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fictional \Fic"tion*al\, a.
     Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious;
     romantic."Fictional rather than historical." --Latham.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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