fictional
- adjective
- /ˈfɪkʃənl/
- We create a fictional world... as a laboratory to make sense of the actual world.
- fictional characters
- a fictional world
- a fictional story
I'm not like some fictional character who's blind.
- I'm not like some fictional character who's blind.
- Now, philosophy can enter into or appear in fictional works in, in quite a few ways.
- So they put a fictional landmass there.
- So this is a classic case of the brain providing a fictional version of what it's seeing.
- The suffering is true even though it is caused by a fictional story.
- They're a hypothetical or fictional being from another world.
- I'm curious to see how we've translate that to a fictional world.
- And God is just the fictional personification of these values.
- I solve a lot of fictional questions in my sleep.
Examples
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Eugene Onegin is a fictional character and the girl of your dreams too.
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Next we're going to go into fictional movies about fashion.
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Even TV shows and movies that are fictional, right, really impact youth today.
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I wrote this fictional version where you do show up.
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Superman was born in the fictional planet of Krypton.
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The novels discussed in this paper are, of course, fictional stories about fictional heroines in fictional scenarios.
Academic text (2011) -
Ethan, which author created the fictional land of Narnia?
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In her latest novel, the protagonist travels through a fictional realm filled with magical creatures.
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Many people enjoy reading fictional stories that take them to different worlds and adventures.
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The film's storyline is entirely fictional, although it draws inspiration from real events.
Synonyms
Found only in old stories and not real, like dragons or unicorns
Not real and made up
Not real, like something from a dream
Relating to traditional stories of gods and heroes that are not true
Very strange and like something made up in dreams or stories
Imaginative but not true or practical
Not real and made up for a story or to hide the truth
Ideas or images that exist only in the mind and are not real
Not real because it is only in someone's mind
Made up and not true, often to trick people
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Etymology
Fictional comes from the Latin root fict-, from fingere, meaning 'to shape' or 'to make up'. So a fictional person or place is one 'made up' by the imagination rather than real.