Definition for Fictional:

• related to or involving literary fiction; " clever fictional devices"; " a fictional treatment of the train robbery"

Synonyms for Fictional:

• adj.

  •chimerical (adjective)
  • un-founded,
  • un founded.
  •deceptive (adjective)
  • illusory.
  •fabled (adjective)
  • mythical,
  • unreal,
  • fabulous,
  • famous,
  • fictional,
  • storied,
  • mythological,
  • Famed.
  •false (adjective)
  • deceptive,
  • counterfeit,
  • deceitful,
  • Deluding,
  • crooked,
  • dishonest,
  • fraudulent,
  • Truthless,
  • false,
  • bogus,
  • phony.
  •fanciful (adjective)
  • imaginative,
  • bizarre,
  • shadowy,
  • visionary,
  • capricious,
  • dreamlike,
  • offbeat,
  • absurd,
  • floating,
  • aerial,
  • wild,
  • on cloud nine,
  • suppositious,
  • preposterous,
  • pie in the sky,
  • extravagant,
  • incredible,
  • whimsical,
  • pipe dream,
  • ideal,
  • curious,
  • poetic,
  • notional.
  •fantastic (adjective)
  • implausible,
  • irrational,
  • weird,
  • ridiculous,
  • quaint,
  • out of sight,
  • queer,
  • unlikely,
  • hallucinatory,
  • grotesque,
  • singular,
  • insane,
  • erratic,
  • peculiar,
  • misleading,
  • exotic,
  • freakish,
  • far-fetched,
  • nonsensical,
  • mad,
  • eccentric,
  • ludicrous,
  • outlandish,
  • foolish,
  • illusive,
  • artificial,
  • crazy,
  • comical,
  • odd,
  • extreme,
  • foreign,
  • unbelievable.
  •fictional (adjective)
  • pretend,
  • imagined.
  •fictitious (adjective)
  • made,
  • delusory,
  • Created,
  • delusive,
  • spurious,
  • fashioned,
  • cooked-up,
  • factitious,
  • improvised,
  • feigned,
  • hyped up,
  • apocryphal,
  • simulated,
  • synthetic,
  • Concocted,
  • assumed,
  • trumped-up,
  • figmental,
  • mock,
  • supposititious.
  •hallucinatory (adjective)
  • most phantasm,
  • more phantasm.
  •illusive (adjective)
  • phantasmagoric,
  • phantasmic,
  • phantasmal.
  •illusory (adjective)
  • floatest,
  • most barmecidal,
  • more barmecidal.
  •illusory/illusive (adjective)
  • mistaken,
  • seeming,
  • fallacious,
  • ostensible,
  • untrue,
  • apparent.
  •imaginary (adjective)
  • unsubstantial,
  • hypothetical,
  • fool's paradise,
  • abstract,
  • theoretical,
  • trumped up,
  • Non-existent,
  • dreamed-up,
  • quixotic,
  • dreamy,
  • apparitional,
  • supposed,
  • spectral,
  • nonexistent.
  •prose (adjective)
  • prose,
  • prosaic.

• n.

  •
  • real,
  • fantastical.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • mythic,
  • juicy,
  • legendary,
  • tragic,
  • racy,
  • epic,
  • tell-all,
  • filmic,
  • spine-chilling,
  • untold,
  • overripe,
  • romantic,
  • picaresque,
  • classic,
  • gory,
  • folklore,
  • nonlinear,
  • historical,
  • unconvincing,
  • autobiographical,
  • truthful,
  • abridged,
  • biographical,
  • swashbuckling,
  • suspenseful.
  •
  • textured.

Paraphrases for Fictional:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    fictitious.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    Non-existent, fake, artificial, false.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    fictive, hypothetical, imaginary, novelistic, virtual, dummy, simulated, phantom, mock, bogus, spurious.

Antonyms for Fictional:

• adj.

  • pert
    nonfictional.
  • Other antonyms:
    verified, physical, substantial, authentic, palpable, existing, tangible, verifiable, corporeal, realistic, believable, material, factual, solid, convincing, genuine.

Fictional Sentence Examples:

• It is likely that this account is by Sarah J. Richardson " as told to" Edward Hood, though it may in fact be completely fictional.