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Webster 1913 Edition

Fictional

Fic′tion-al

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Adj.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic.

“Fictional rather than historical.”

Latham.

Definition 2024

fictional

fictional

English

Adjective

fictional ‎(comparative more fictional, superlative most fictional)

Invented, as opposed to real.

Romeo and Juliet are fictional characters.

The janitor's account of the crime turned out to be entirely fictional.

Related terms

Translations

invented, as opposed to real

Bulgarian: измислен (bg) ‎(izmislen), въображаем (bg) ‎(vǎobražaem)
Catalan: ficcional m, f
Danish: opdigtet
Dutch: fictief (nl)
Finnish: kuvitteellinen (fi), fiktiivinen (fi)
French: fictif (fr) m, fictive (fr) f
German: fiktiv (de), fiktional (de), erfunden (de), ausgedacht (de)
Greek: φανταστικός (el) ‎(fantastikós)
Hungarian: kitalált (hu), fiktív (hu)

Icelandic: skáldskapar-, uppspunninn m, skáldaður m, tilbúinn (is) m, upploginn m
Polish: fikcyjny (pl)
Portuguese: fictício (pt)
Russian: вы́мышленный (ru) ‎(výmyšlennyj), вы́думанный (ru) ‎(výdumannyj), фикти́вный (ru) ‎(fiktívnyj)
Spanish: de ficción, novelado (es), ficticio (es)
Swahili: -a kubuniwa
Swedish: fiktiv (sv)