fictional Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective related to or involving literary fiction
    • clever fictional devices
    • a fictional treatment of the train robbery
  2. adjective satellite formed or conceived by the imagination
    fictitious; fabricated; fancied.
    • a fabricated excuse for his absence
    • a fancied wrong
    • a fictional character

WordNet


Fic"tion*al adjective
Definitions
  1. Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic."Fictional rather than historical." Latham.

Webster 1913