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Main Entry: fictional
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fictitious

Synonyms:

fabricated, fanciful, fictive, imaginary, imagined, invented, made-up, make-believe, pretend
Notes: fictional is pertaining to or found in fiction; fictitious is 'false, fraudulent' or 'non-existent'
Main Entry: fabled
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: legendary

Synonyms:

fabulous, famed, famous, fanciful, fictional, mythical, mythological, storied, unreal

Antonyms:

unheard of, unknown
Main Entry: fanciful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: imaginary, romantic

Synonyms:

absurd, aerial, bizarre, blue sky, capricious, castles in the air, chimerical, curious, dreamlike, extravagant, fabulous, fairy-tale, fancied, fantastic, fantastical, fictional, fictitious, fictive, flaky*, floating, ideal, illusory, imaginative, imagined, incredible, kinky*, legendary, mythical, notional, offbeat, on cloud nine, pie in the sky, pipe dream, poetic, preposterous, shadowy, suppositious, unreal, visionary, whimsical, wild

Antonyms:

grave, ordinary, real, serious, sincere, unfanciful, unimaginative, unromantic
Main Entry: fantastic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: strange, different; imaginary

Synonyms:

absurd, artificial, capricious, chimerical, comical, crazy, eccentric, erratic, exotic, extravagant, extreme, fanciful, far-fetched, fictional, foolish, foreign, freakish, grotesque, hallucinatory, illusive, imaginative, implausible, incredible, insane, irrational, ludicrous, mad, misleading, nonsensical, odd, out of sight, outlandish, peculiar, phantasmagorical, preposterous, quaint, queer, ridiculous, singular, suppositious, unbelievable, unlikely, unreal, wacky*, weird, whimsical

Antonyms:

common, commonplace, conventional, customary, familiar, ordinary, plain, usual
Main Entry: fictitious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: untrue, made-up

Synonyms:

apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bogus*, chimerical, concocted, cooked-up, counterfeit, created, deceptive, delusive, delusory, dishonest, ersatz*, fabricated, factitious, fake, faked, false, fanciful, fantastic, fashioned, feigned, fictional, fictive, figmental, hyped up, illusory, imaginary, imagined, improvised, invented, made, make-believe, misleading, mock, mythical, phony, queer, romantic, sham*, simulated, spurious, suppositious, supposititious, synthetic, trumped-up, unreal
Notes: factitious refers to 'made up, contrived' as opposed to what is genuine, while fictitious is 'made up, contrived' as opposed to what is real; a factitious story might be designed to serve a purpose, but a fictitious story is intended to deceive
fictional is pertaining to or found in fiction; fictitious is 'false, fraudulent' or 'non-existent'

Antonyms:

actual, certain, confirmed, factual, genuine, proven, real, sincere, sure, true, truthful
Main Entry: illusory/illusive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: deceptive, false

Synonyms:

apparent, blue-sky, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, delusory, fake, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, hallucinatory, ideal, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, pseudo*, seeming, semblant, sham*, suppositious, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical

Antonyms:

certain, factual, real, sure, true
Main Entry: imaginary
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fictitious, invented

Synonyms:

abstract, apocryphal, apparitional, assumed, chimerical, deceptive, delusive, dreamed-up, dreamlike, dreamy, fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, figmental, fool's paradise, hallucinatory, hypothetical, ideal, illusive, illusory, imaginative, imagined, legendary, made-up, mythological, nonexistent, notional, phantasmal, phantasmic, quixotic, shadowy, spectral, supposed, supposititious, theoretical, trumped up, unreal, unsubstantial, visionary, whimsical

Antonyms:

existing, factual, genuine, physical, real, substantial, true
Main Entry: made-up
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: invented mentally

Synonyms:

fabricated, false, fictional, imaginary, make-believe, mythical, prepared, specious, trumped-up, unreal, untrue

Antonyms:

original, real, true
Main Entry: make-believe
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: imagined, unreal

Synonyms:

acted, dream, false, fantasized, fantasy, fictional, fraudulent, imaginary, made-up, mock, pretend, pretended, sham, simulated

Antonyms:

real, true, unimagined
Main Entry: narrative
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: storylike, chronological

Synonyms:

anecdotal, fictional, fictive, historical, narrated, recounted, reported, retold, sequential

Antonyms:

rambling
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