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Synonyms & Antonyms of fictional
not real and existing only in the imagination
- the events in the horror movie seemed so real to some fans that they could not believe that the whole thing was fictional
Synonyms for fictional
- chimerical
- (also chimeric),
- fabulous,
- fanciful,
- fantasied,
- fantastic
- (also fantastical),
- fictitious,
- ideal,
- imaginal,
- imaginary,
- imagined,
- invented,
- made-up,
- make-believe,
- mythical
- (or mythic),
- notional,
- phantasmal,
- phantasmic,
- phantom,
- pretend,
- unreal,
- visionary
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“Fictional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fictional. Accessed 24 Oct. 2021.
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The first known use of fictional was in 1834
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