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Princeton's WordNet
fictionaladjective
related to or involving literary fiction
"clever fictional devices"; "a fictional treatment of the train robbery"
fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitiousadjective
formed or conceived by the imagination
"a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"
Wiktionary
fictionaladjective
Invented, as opposed to real.
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fictional
Fictional refers to something that is invented or imagined from the mind, rather than being based on facts or reality. It typically relates to works of literature, theater, film or other creative mediums that are characterized by imagined characters, events and situations. Fictional can also describe individual elements within these works, such as characters, locations, or events that do not exist in real life.
Webster Dictionary
Fictionaladjective
pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic
Wikidata
Fictional
Fictional is the name of a German musical project formed by Gerrit Thomas, serving as a balance between two other projects he is involved in, Funker Vogt and Ravenous. Fictional has released music on the Industrial and Electronic body music labels Metropolis Records and Zoth Ommog.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of fictional in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of fictional in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of fictional in a Sentence
It’s fictional, but it’s loosely based on the truth. Of course, it’s not strictly accurate; it gives you a rough idea about what that lifestyle is, the pressures of putting duty and service above family and everything else, what can come from that.
The attraction to make this film and this character was that we were going to approach it in our own way so for me I didn't refer to any past creations of the character, i did identify Arthur as a particular personality but then I also wanted the freedom to create something that wasn't identifiable. This is a fictional character and I didn't want a psychiatrist to be able to identify the kind of person he was.
Based on questions and statements I have heard, some of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country — and that perhaps, somehow, for some reason, Ukraine did, this is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services themselves.
When people say, ‘I wish you had been my mom,’ it always makes me feel a little sad, olivia was a fictional character. We all wish she had been our mother. I tried to get [producer] Earl Hammer to let her make mistakes because all mothers do at times.
My logic back then was very simple, this was an opportunity to clarify the record, to draw the distinction between the fictional character of Charlie Kane and his gloomy Xanadu and WR Hearst and his beautiful architectural masterpiece at the top of the hill at San Simeon.
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- измислен, въображаемBulgarian
- ficcionalCatalan, Valencian
- opdigtetDanish
- erfunden, fiktional, fiktiv, ausgedachtGerman
- novelado, ficticioSpanish
- fiktiivinen, kuvitteellinenFinnish
- fictive, fictifFrench
- fiktív, kitaláltHungarian
- uppspunninn, tilbúinn, skáldaður, skáldskapur, upploginnIcelandic
- fictiefDutch
- fikcyjnyPolish
- фикти́вный, вы́думанный, вы́мышленныйRussian
- fiktivSwedish
- -a kubuniwaSwahili
- 虛構Chinese
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