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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: related to or involving literary fiction; "clever fictional devices"; "a fictional treatment of the train robbery" [ant: nonfictional]
2: formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character" [syn: fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious]

Merriam Webster's

adjective see fiction

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fictional Fic"tion*al, a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic.``Fictional rather than historical.'' --Latham.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Fictional characters or events occur only in stories, plays, or films and never actually existed or happened. It is drama featuring fictional characters... = fictitious, imaginary ADJ: usu ADJ n

Moby Thesaurus

allegoric, chimerical, concocted, cooked-up, fabricated, fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, fictitious, fictive, figmental, forged, hatched, illusory, imaginary, invented, legendary, made-up, make-believe, manufactured, mythic, mythical, mythicized, mythified, mythological, mythopoeic, mythopoetic, nonactual, nonfactual, nonrealistic, parabolic, put-up, romantic, romanticized, supposititious, trumped-up, unreal