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Definitions: Fictional |
FictionalAdjective1. Related to or involving literary fiction; "clever fictional devices"; "a fictional treatment of the train robbery". 2. Formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"; "used fictitious names"; "a made-up story". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fictional" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
Synonyms: FictionalSynonyms: fabricated (adj), fancied (adj), fictitious (adj), invented (adj), made-up (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: nonfictional (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Fictional |
| English words defined with "fictional": Ali Baba, allegory ♦ canvas, canvass, Captain Horatio Hornblower, Cheshire cat, Chicken Little, church mouse, Cinderella, Commissaire Maigret ♦ Donald Duck, Dracula ♦ fabricated, fabrication, fancied, fictional animal, fictional character, fictionalisation, fictionalization, fictitious, Frankenstein ♦ Gulliver ♦ Horatio Hornblower ♦ imaginary place, Inspector Maigret, interior monologue, invented ♦ Lothario ♦ made-up, Martian, Micawber, Mickey Mouse, Mighty Mouse ♦ nonfiction, nonfictional, nonfictional prose, novel ♦ Perry Mason ♦ Raskolnikov, Rodya Raskolnikov, roman a clef ♦ snoopy, Sweeney Todd ♦ Todd ♦ Walter Mitty, Wilkins Micawber. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fictional": electron model ♦ fictional assets ♦ kernel-of-the-week club ♦ network, the ♦ The Network. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | He's fictional, but you can't have everything. (The Purple Rose of Cairo; writing credit: Woody Allen.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis (2000) | |
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Civil Liberties | Canada | The student was arrested after reading aloud in class a fictional essay he wrote for a class assignment, in which a bullied boy blows up his school. (references) |
Worker Rights | Morocco | In November the press reported the uncovering of a trafficking network in which young Moroccan women paid $2,000 in return for fictional hotel work contracts and travel to Amman, Jordan, where they were forced into prostitution. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Fictional" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.57% of the time. "Fictional" is used about 469 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.57% | 467 | 12,638 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.43% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 469 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "fictional": fictional animal ♦ fictional assets ♦ fictional character ♦ Fictional Works [Publication Type]. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "fictional": fictional-real. | |
Ending with "fictional": non-fictional. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "fictional"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | imagjinar (fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fictitious, fictive, imaginary, imaginative, unreal, visional, visionary), i trilluar (fabled, fabricated, feigned). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قصصي (narrative, narrator, novelist), خيالي (aerial, chimerical, conceptual, fancied, fanciful, fancy, fantast, fantastic, fictitious, fictive, figment, ideal, ideational, imaginary, imaginative, impracticable, mythical, notional, quixotic, romantic, unreal, utopian, visionary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | въображаем (abstract, fancy, ideal, imaginary, mythical, mythological, notional, phantom, unreal, visional, visionary), белетристичен (fictive), измислен (fabled, fabulous, fancy, fictitious, made up, mythical, phantasmagoric, phoney, phony, spoof). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 虚构 (Chimeric, Chimerical, fictive, imaginary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | smyšlený (fanciful, fictitious), beletristický. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | fiktive aktiver (fictional assets, fictitious assets). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verdicht (fictitious), fictief (fictitious), denkbeeldig (fictitious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | fikcia (fictitious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | hugsaður (fictitious), óveruligur (fictitious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | fiktiivinen omaisuuserä (fictional assets, fictitious assets). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fictif (fictile, fictitious, fictive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | erdichtet (fictionally, invents, made up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μυθιστορηματικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ב"יו י (fictitious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kitalált (fabricated, fabulous, feigned, fictitious, fictive, imaginary, invented, made). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | attivo fittizio (fictional assets, fictitious assets). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 仮説 (hypothesis, provisional, supposition, temporary), 仮設 (hypothesis, provisional, supposition, temporary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かせつ (auspicious occasion, building, construction, hypothesis, provisional, supposition, temporary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 소설 (Novel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ictionalfay novelas (novel). (various references) fictiv (assumed, bogus, dummy, fictitious, fictitiously, fictive, sham, unreal). (various references) вымышленный (assumed, fictitious, fictive, romantic), выдуманный (made, made out of whole cloth, spoof). (various references) izmišljen (fanciful, fictitious, made up). (various references) novelesco. (various references) uppdiktad (fabled, fake, fictitious, invented, made up, trumped up), skönlitterär, diktad (fabulous). (various references) romana ait, imgesel (fictitious, imaginary, imaginative), hayali (aerial, airy, cardboard box, chimerical, delusive, Faerie, faery, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fictitious, fictive, illusive, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, insubstantial, phantasmal, spectral, unreal, visionary), düşsel (imaginary, unreal, utopian, visionary). (various references) вигаданий (airy, assumed, fabled, feigned, fictitious, make believe, mythic, mythical), белетристичний (novelistic). (various references) tưởng tượng (aerial, fictitious, fictive, imaginary, imaginative, mythical, mythologic, mythological, visionary), hư cấu (fictitious, fictive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fictional": fictionalise, fictionalised, fictionalises, fictionalising, fictionalities, fictionality, fictionalization, fictionalizations, fictionalize, fictionalized, fictionalizes, fictionalizing, fictionally. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "fictional": metafictional, nonfictional. (additional references) | |
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"Fictional" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fictonal, Fiktionen, Filtrona, fuctional. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fictional" (pronounced fi"kshunul) |
| 7 | -i" k sh u n u l | jurisdictional. |
| 6 | -k sh u n u l | correctional, directional, dysfunctional, factional, fluxional, fractional, functional, instructional, sectional. |
| 5 | -sh u n u l | aberrational, additional, binational, coeducational, compositional, computational, concessional, conditional, confessional, conformational, confrontational, congregational, congressional, connotational, constitutional, conventional, conversational, denominational, depositional, devotional, dimensional, educational, emotional, exceptional, foundational, generational, gravitational, improvisational, informational, inspirational, institutional, intentional, intergenerational, international, investigational, Invitational, irrational, motivational, multinational, national, navigational, nonprofessional, nontraditional, nutritional, obsessional, occupational, operational, optional, organizational, processional, professional, promotional, proportional, rational, recreational, relational, representational, rotational, sensational, situational, supranational, traditional, transformational, transitional, transnational, unconditional, unconstitutional, unconventional, unemotional, unintentional, unprofessional, untraditional, vocational. |
| 4 | -u n u l | abdominal, aboriginal, Arsenal, attitudinal, biphenyl, cantonal, Cardinal, collisional, criminal, delusional, diagonal, divisional, doctrinal, duodenal, erosional, gastrointestinal, hexagonal, impersonal, interpersonal, intestinal, juvenile, latitudinal, longitudinal, luminal, marginal, medicinal, nominal, noncriminal, occasional, octagonal, original, personal, phenomenal, polygonal, provisional, regional, retinal, seasonal, seminal, sentinel, subliminal, superregional, terminal, virginal. |
| 3 | -n u l | adrenal, anal, annal, annul, atonal, autumnal, carnal, channel, Colonel, communal, cornel, Darnel, departmental, diurnal, empanel, eternal, external, faunal, fennel, final, flannel, fraternal, funnel, hormonal, Hymnal, impanel, infernal, internal, journal, kennel, kernel, maternal, monoclonal, monsoonal, morainal, nocturnal, panel, paternal, penal, polyvinyl, renal, semifinal, shrapnel, signal, spinal, tonal, tribunal, tunnel, vaginal, venal, vernal, Vinal, vinyl. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-f-i-i-l-n-o-t" | |
-2 letters: faction, fiction, finical, folacin, inflict, tinfoil. | |
-3 letters: action, alnico, atonic, cation, catlin, citola, coital, confit, falcon, finial, flacon, fontal, italic, latino, oilcan, talion, tincal. | |
-4 letters: acini, actin, aioli, aloft, aloin, antic, calif, canto, cilia, clift, coati, colin, cotan, faint, ficin, final, flint, float, flota, focal, folia, iliac, ionic, licit, linac, litai, lotic, nicol. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-f-i-i-l-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: affliction, frictional, pontifical. | |
+2 letters: afflictions, fictionally, pontificals. | |
+3 letters: bifunctional, confidential, difunctional, facilitation, factionalism, felicitation, fictionalise, fictionality, fictionalize, focalization, frictionally, inflectional, liquefaction, nonfictional, pontifically, uglification, vilification. | |
+4 letters: amplification, calcification, clarification, coalification, disfunctional, facilitations, factionalisms, falsification, fasciculation, felicitations, fictionalised, fictionalises, fictionalized, fictionalizes, focalizations, fractionalize, functionalism, functionalist, functionality, glorification, jollification, lignification, liquefactions, lithification, metafictional, microfilament, mollification, nullification, qualification, uglifications, vilifications. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 69 63 74 69 6F 6E 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .. -.-. - .. --- -. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F i c t i o n a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0069 0063 0074 0069 006F 006E 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)407569867581806778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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