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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats