fictional
/ˈfɪkʃənl
/adjective
Relating to or occurring in fiction; invented for the purposes of fiction: fictional texts a fictional character...
- To help him play Trevor with conviction, Ferns invented a fictional biography for the troubled man.
- It is now less and less necessary for the writer to invent the fictional content of his novel.
- Wrong's excellent book is peopled by the kind of characters no fictional framing could ever conceive.
Synonyms
fictitious, invented, imaginary, imagined, made up, make-believe, unreal, fabricated, concocted, devised, mythical, storybook, the product of someone's imagination
Derivatives
fictionality
- Like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the South American writer with whom she is being lavishly compared by her rather over-enthusiastic publishers, Enright is interested in the fictionality of history.
- I like to think that I've plotted it in such a way that though the idea came from personal experience, that I've moved it away into a realm of obvious fictionality.
- It limits the damage done by a story by forcing its audience to realize its fictionality at almost every moment.
fictionalization
- If it is copyrightable expression, he might still claim that his use is fair, though the fictionalization might be argued to undermine the fair use claim.
- One of the most disturbing aspects of the affair is the spontaneously-occurring popular fictionalization of the events.
- To an extent, the book is a fictionalization of the life of real-world CIA man, Robert Ames.
fictionalize
/ (also fictionalise) verb ...- Since the war ended, the American public has been fed a dose of movies fictionalizing the excesses of U.S. units in Vietnam, such as Apocalypse Now and Platoon.
- I guess I'm fictionalizing parts of my glory days for the book.
- Granted it's never easy fictionalizing historic events, but the temptation to rely on magical shortcuts should be avoided at all costs.
fictionally
- I'd done a lot of work fictionally, in terms of narrative, point of view and so on, but I also had lot of non-fiction experience to draw on: research methods, interviewing, finding material.
- The Jerusalem-to-Ramallah route that Rana takes fictionally is itself the subject of the second of Abu-Assad's works in the festival: the documentary Ford Transit.
- The play is set in the Shear Madness hair salon, fictionally located in Kensington, where the lives of customers and hairdressers are disrupted by a murder.
Rhymes
- put the question
- put the screws on
- put the skids under
- put the squeeze on
- put the tin lid on
- put-through
- puttied
- puttin'-aff
- putting cleek
- putting club
- putting green
- putting hole
- putting iron
- putting-off
- putting on
- putting stone
- Puttnam, Sir David
- putto
- puttock
- put-together
- puttony
- puttoo
- put to rout
- put to the sword
- put to the torch (or put a torch to)