fictional
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- 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
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Watch on YouTubeI'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.
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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
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6.0
Found only in old stories and not real, like dragons or unicorns
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5.1
Not real and made up
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8.0
Very strange and like something made up in dreams or stories
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6.8
Relating to traditional stories of gods and heroes that are not true
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Made up and not true, often to trick people
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4.2
Not real, like something from a dream
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Imaginative but not true or practical
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Not real and made up for a story or to hide the truth
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5.5
Ideas or images that exist only in the mind and are not real
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Not real because it is only in someone's mind
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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.