Associations to the word «Fictional»

Wiktionary

FICTIONAL, adjective. Invented, as opposed to real.

Dictionary definition

FICTIONAL, adjective. Related to or involving literary fiction; "clever fictional devices"; "a fictional treatment of the train robbery".
FICTIONAL, adjective. Formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character".

Wise words

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.