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fictional en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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/ˈfɪkʃənəl/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *dʰinéǵʰti Proto-Italic *θingō Proto-Italic *fingōder. Latin fingō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin fictiōder. Old French ficcionbor. Middle English ficcioun English fiction Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English fictional From fiction + -al.

Meanings

Invented, as opposed to real.
- The janitor's account of the crime turned out to be entirely fictional.
- Near-synonyms: fictitious, fake
- Nineteen Eighty-Four was written in 1949. Its nightmarish fictional world is now 37 years in the past, so one might reasonably conclude that Orwell was far too pessimistic, but his great book was less a prediction than a warning, and above all an analysis of the totalitarian mentality. 2021 January 5, Peter Foster, “Peter Foster: Sustainable Newspeak by 2050”, in Financial Post:
- Romeo and Juliet are fictional characters.
Containing invented elements.
- The Simpsons is a fictional television show.
- 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. 2007, Robert Mladinich, Hooked Up for Murder, page 371:
- 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. 1956, Barbara Anne Monroe, An Investigation of Fictional Books for Children which Deal with the American Indian in the United States:
Occurring in fiction.
- Tunnels often feature in fictional journeys, so I will end with quotations from a fairly recent novel, Howard Spring's "Fame is the Spur", published in 1940, in which there is a journey from Manchester to Bradford via the Calder Valley route: "Ay, we're going through Todmorden. We'll soon be in t' tunnel, and when we get to t' other end we'll be in Yorkshire," and "Ah think this is t' filthiest tunnel in t' world." 1957 May 14, Neil Caplan, “Railways in English Fiction”, in Railway Magazine, page 350:
Concerning fiction (as a genre or medium): having to do with fiction; specific to fiction.
- Let us consider the fourth rule's pertinence to writers of fiction. First, are fictional writers somehow intrinsically insincere? Do they not mean what they say? Did we ever hear Faulkner or Marquez or Toni Morrison say, 'I take that all back. I didn't mean it. I was being insincere'? Couldn't one make the case that, given that fiction writers as well as other artists carry the burden of creating a wholly imaginary realm, they must be profoundly sincere and believe deeply in the truth of the world they are creating? Second, do not writers ('speakers') commit themselves 'to a belief in the truth of the expressed proposition'? 2016 [2011], Rob Sullivan, “Chapter 1: Speech acts”, in Geography Speaks: Performative Aspects of Geography, Routledge, →ISBN, page 18:
- How well have American writers acquitted themselves as teachers and interpreters? A glance at the following names of our earliest authors will be gratifying: […] [long list of American authors] […], and that longer list of spirited writers who during the last forty years have literally deluged their generation with all that is good and bad in fictional literature. Their names and works, still so recent, are in the minds of present-day readers and need not be set forth here. While all the American authors indicated in the foregoing list were not novelists, or purely fictional writers, practically all of them come within that class of interpreters of whom we have been writing. 1925, Henry Wellington Wack, You and I and Life, pages 122-123:
- fictional and nonfictional conventions
- fictional conventions
- fictional writers
- Because Fielding was the best theorizer of the three—or possibly because he was the most "normal" person, his principles were followed fairly closely by fictional writers throughout the first half of the Nineteenth Century, so that in the three major writers of fiction of that period we find a surprising similarity of method and of manner. 1927, Helen Cooke Sarchet, The Fictional Method of Waldo Frank: A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of Minnesota, University of Minnesota, page 4:

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more fictional	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic
most fictional	Degree=Sup		lexicographic

Translations (65)

ru фикти́вный (invented, as opposed to real) · de ausgedacht (invented, as opposed to real) · uk ви́мишлений (invented, as opposed to real) · sl izmišljen (invented, as opposed to real) · el φανταστικός (invented, as opposed to real) · be вы́думаны (invented, as opposed to real) · da opdigtet (invented, as opposed to real) · ar خَيَالِيّ (invented, as opposed to real) · de erfunden (invented, as opposed to real) · cs smyšlený (invented, as opposed to real) · es fictivo (invented, as opposed to real) · pt fictício (invented, as opposed to real) · fo fagurbókmentaligur (invented, as opposed to real) · bg фикти́вен (invented, as opposed to real) · af fiktief (invented, as opposed to real) · is uppspunninn (invented, as opposed to real) · gl ficticio (invented, as opposed to real) · fo uppspunnin (invented, as opposed to real) · sw -a kubuniwa (invented, as opposed to real) · sk vymyslený (invented, as opposed to real) · fr fictif (invented, as opposed to real) · sl fiktiven (invented, as opposed to real) · de fiktiv (invented, as opposed to real) · ru вы́мышленный (invented, as opposed to real) · sk fiktívny (invented, as opposed to real) · hu fiktív (invented, as opposed to real) · es ficcional (invented, as opposed to real) · fi fiktiivinen (invented, as opposed to real) · es ficticio (invented, as opposed to real) · it fittizio (invented, as opposed to real) · is skáldskapar- (invented, as opposed to real) · uk фікти́вний (invented, as opposed to real) · bg въобра́жаем (invented, as opposed to real) · be фікты́ўны (invented, as opposed to real) · sh ѝзмишљен (invented, as opposed to real) · ru вы́думанный (invented, as opposed to real) · it finto (invented, as opposed to real) · bg изми́слен (invented, as opposed to real) · sv fiktiv (invented, as opposed to real) · da fiktiv (invented, as opposed to real) · mk измислен (invented, as opposed to real) · ca ficcional (invented, as opposed to real) · ar مُتَخَيَّل (invented, as opposed to real) · mk фиктивен (invented, as opposed to real) · cs fiktivní (invented, as opposed to real) · af fiktiewe (invented, as opposed to real) · sh ìzmišljen (invented, as opposed to real) · hu kitalált (invented, as opposed to real) · sh fìktīvan (invented, as opposed to real) · uk ви́думаний (invented, as opposed to real) · is skáldaður (invented, as opposed to real) · is tilbúinn (invented, as opposed to real) · ru вообража́емый (invented, as opposed to real) · is upploginn (invented, as opposed to real) · nl fictief (invented, as opposed to real) · uk ви́гаданий (invented, as opposed to real) · fo íspunnin (invented, as opposed to real) · pl fikcyjny (invented, as opposed to real) · it immaginario (invented, as opposed to real) · be выабража́льны (invented, as opposed to real) · es inventado (invented, as opposed to real) · fi kuvitteellinen (invented, as opposed to real) · pl zmyślony (invented, as opposed to real) · it inventato (invented, as opposed to real) · sh фѝктӣван (invented, as opposed to real)

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