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fictional - 11 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | fictional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictitious |
| Synonyms: | fanciful, fictive, imaginary, imagined, invented, made-up, make-believe, pretend, fabricated |
| 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, mythical, storied, unreal, fictional, mythological |
| Antonyms: | unknown, unheard of |
| Main Entry: | fanciful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary, romantic |
| Synonyms: | absurd, aerial, bizarre, capricious, chimerical, curious, dreamlike, extravagant, fabulous, fantastic, fictitious, flaky*, floating, ideal, illusory, imaginative, imagined, incredible, kinky*, legendary, mythical, offbeat, on cloud nine*, pie in the sky*, pipe dream*, poetic, preposterous, shadowy, unreal, visionary, whimsical, wild, blue sky, castles in the air, fairy-tale, fancied, fantastical, fictional, fictive, notional, suppositious |
| Antonyms: | grave, ordinary, real, serious, sincere, unimaginative, unfanciful, unromantic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fictitious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | untrue, made-up |
| Synonyms: | apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bogus*, chimerical, counterfeit, deceptive, delusive, dishonest, ersatz*, factitious, fake, false, fanciful, fantastic, fashioned, feigned, illusory, imaginary, imagined, improvised, made, make-believe, misleading, mock, mythical, phony, queer, romantic, sham*, simulated, spurious, synthetic, unreal, concocted, cooked-up, created, delusory, fabricated, faked, fictional, fictive, figmental, hyped up, invented, suppositious, supposititious, trumped-up |
| Antonyms: | actual, certain, confirmed, factual, genuine, real, sincere, sure, true, truthful, proven |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illusory/illusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive, false |
| Synonyms: | apparent, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, fake, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, fictitious, ideal, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, pseudo*, seeming, sham*, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical, blue-sky, delusory, fictional, fictive, hallucinatory, semblant, suppositious |
| Antonyms: | certain, factual, real, sure, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | made-up |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | invented mentally |
| Synonyms: | false, imaginary, make-believe, mythical, prepared, specious, unreal, untrue, fabricated, fictional, trumped-up |
| Antonyms: | original, real, true |
| Main Entry: | make-believe |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imagined, unreal |
| Synonyms: | dream, false, fantasy, fraudulent, imaginary, made-up, mock, pretend, pretended, sham, simulated, acted, fantasized, fictional |
| Antonyms: | real, true, unimagined |
| Main Entry: | narrative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | storylike, chronological |
| Synonyms: | anecdotal, historical, reported, sequential, fictional, fictive, narrated, recounted, retold |
| Antonyms: | rambling |
| Main Entry: | illusory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive |
| Synonyms: | apparent, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, fallacious, false, fanciful, fantastic, fictitious, float, ideal, illusive, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, pipe dream, seeming, sham, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical, Barmecidal, blue sky, delusory, fictional, fictive, hallucinatory, semblant, suppositious, supposititious |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real |
| 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, foolish, foreign, freakish, grotesque, illusive, imaginative, implausible, incredible, insane, irrational, ludicrous, mad, misleading, nonsensical, odd, out of sight, outlandish, peculiar, preposterous, quaint, queer, ridiculous, singular, unbelievable, unlikely, unreal, wacky*, weird, whimsical, fictional, hallucinatory, phantasmagorical, suppositious |
| Antonyms: | common, commonplace, conventional, customary, familiar, ordinary, plain, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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