Fictional
Fictional adjective - Not real and existing only in the imagination.
Usage example: the events in the horror movie seemed so real to some fans that they could not believe that the whole thing was fictional
Ideal and fictional are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ideal" instead an adjective "Fictional".
Nearby Words: fiction, fictitious, fictionally, fictionalised
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- fanciful and fictional
- fanciful and ideal
- abstract and fictional
- abstract and ideal
- romantic and fictional
- romantic and ideal
- hypothetical and fictional
- hypothetical and ideal
- theoretical and fictional
- theoretical and ideal
- imaginary and fictional
- imaginary and ideal
- fantastic and fictional
- fantastic and ideal
Both words in one sentence
- In a fictional or ideal world, yes, the bigger the better, build the largest ship your technology can give you, and build zillions of it, and you have the strongest fleet.
Source: Analysis / Space Fighter -
It was so bad that even the fictional officers from his ideal dream went through a couple of seconds of embarrassed, uncertain silence before bursting into sycophantic laughter.
Source: Cannot Tell a Joke -
Switch (white) with Apoch (white) in the first film too, and Mouse's (white) attraction attraction to his own fictional "ideal woman", the Woman in Red (white).
Source: Token Minority Couple
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