fictional

English

Etymology

From fiction +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪkʃənəl/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

Adjective

fictional (comparative more fictional, superlative most fictional)

1. Invented, as opposed to real.

   Romeo and Juliet are fictional characters.

   The janitor's account of the crime turned out to be entirely fictional.

2. Containing invented elements.

   The Simpsons is a fictional television show.

   • 1956, Barbara Anne Monroe, An Investigation of Fictional Books for Children which Deal with the American Indian in the United States:

     Including both factual and fictional books would have reduced the value of the study; it would have made the content too heterogeneous for the drawing of significant conclusions.

   • 2007, Robert Mladinich, Hooked Up for Murder, page 371:

     While the jury saw the Sopranos episode in which Adriana was killed for cooperating with the FBI, Mr. Ferro argued to the jury the difference between the fictional TV show from the reality of this trial.

Derived terms

• fictional documentary
• science fictional

Related terms

• fictionalization
• fictionalize
• fictitional
• fictitious
• fictive

 

Translations

invented, as opposed to real

• Afrikaans: fiktiewe (attributive adjective), fiktief (predicative adjective)
• Arabic: خَيَالِيّ (ar) (ḵayāliyy), مُتَخَيَّل (mutaḵayyal)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: вы́думаны (výdumany), фікты́ўны (fiktýŭny), выабража́льны (vyabražálʹny)
• Bulgarian: изми́слен (bg) (izmíslen), въобра́жаем (bg) (vǎobrážaem), фикти́вен (bg) (fiktíven)
• Catalan: ficcional
• Czech: fiktivní (cs), smyšlený (cs)
• Danish: fiktiv (da), opdigtet
• Dutch: fictief (nl)
• Faroese: íspunnin, uppspunnin, fagurbókmentaligur
• Finnish: kuvitteellinen (fi), fiktiivinen (fi)
• French: fictif (fr)
• Galician: ficticio
• German: fiktiv (de), erfunden (de), ausgedacht (de)
• Greek: φανταστικός (el) (fantastikós)
• Hungarian: kitalált (hu), fiktív (hu)
• Icelandic: skáldskapar-, uppspunninn, skáldaður, tilbúinn (is), upploginn
• Italian: immaginario (it), fittizio (it), inventato (it), finto (it)
• Macedonian: измислен (izmislen), фиктивен (fiktiven)
• Polish: fikcyjny (pl), zmyślony (pl)
• Portuguese: fictício (pt)
• Russian: вы́мышленный (ru) (výmyšlennyj), вы́думанный (ru) (výdumannyj), фикти́вный (ru) (fiktívnyj), вообража́емый (ru) (voobražájemyj) (imaginary)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ѝзмишљен, фѝктӣван

  Roman: ìzmišljen (sh), fìktīvan (sh)

• Slovak: vymyslený, fiktívny
• Slovene: izmišljen, fiktiven
• Spanish: ficticio (es), inventado (es), ficcional (es)
• Swahili: -a kubuniwa
• Swedish: fiktiv (sv)
• Ukrainian: ви́гаданий (výhadanyj), ви́мишлений (výmyšlenyj), ви́думаний (výdumanyj), фікти́вний (fiktývnyj)

References

• “fictional”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• antifolic