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Fictional

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Adjective

1. fictional

related to or involving literary fiction

Example Sentences:
'clever fictional devices'
'a fictional treatment of the train robbery'

2. fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious

formed or conceived by the imagination

Example Sentences:
'a fabricated excuse for his absence'
'a fancied wrong'
'a fictional character'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Fictional

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n.
1.
a. The category of literature, drama, film, or other creative work whose content is imagined and is not necessarily based on fact.
b. Works in this category: the fiction of Virginia Woolf.
c. A work within this category: the shorter fictions of Faulkner.
2.
a. Narrative, explanatory material, or belief that is not true or has been imagined or fabricated: The notion that he was at the scene of the crime is pure fiction.
b. A narrative, explanation, or belief that may seem true but is false or fabricated: "Neutrality is a fiction in an unneutral world" (Howard Zinn).
3. Law A verbal contrivance that is in some sense inaccurate but that accomplishes a purpose, as in the treatment of husband and wife as one person or a corporation as an entity.

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