fictional

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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"
       [syn: {fabricated}, {fancied}, {fictional}, {fictitious}]
    
from 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]
    
from 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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