NONFACTUAL Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

nonfactual

adjective

Definition of nonfactual

as in fictional

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Recent Examples of nonfactual The Erik Wemple Blog asked the Times for another example of an editor’s note apologizing for nonfactual issues. — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022 Yankovic, who wrote the film with its director Eric Appel, noted that the intention is to be satirical and nonfactual. — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2022 And many of my mainstream-media colleagues can accept the majority of accountability for this tragic development through biased, nonfactual and incomplete reporting that has pretty much degenerated into talking heads venting their specific agendas. — Mike Masterson, Arkansas Online, 27 Dec. 2020

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Adjective

Neon plans a 2027 theatrical release under the Creative Commons license for the open-source horror film based on a fictional secretive organization that keeps supernatural items and other harmful entities away from the public.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2026
With its setting in the fictional prairie town of Saint-Legal, the film takes inspiration from Ng’s small-town Alberta upbringing.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of fictional

Adjective

These platforms are colonizing existing speculative spaces—like election results and sporting outcomes—while profiting from areas of asymmetrical knowledge that were previously not possible to monetize.

— Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
For its movie, Neon plans to focus on emerging filmmakers to contribute to the anthology feature based on the sprawling SCP Wiki launched in 2008 as a collaborative and speculative fiction website.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of speculative

Adjective

The schemes often use fictitious romantic relationships to persuade victims to transfer money to an investment opportunity recommended by the fraudsters.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2026
As the puzzle pieces shift slowly into place, these revelations are jaw-dropping (once again, in their highly fictitious context), leading to a journalistic urgency.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of fictitious

Adjective

In the 21st century, however, historians mistook the code word for a code name and gave the pretexts their unhistorical handle.

— Ken Hughes, The Conversation, 24 Nov. 2025
Saying that ending our 43-year involvement [with] the EU is somehow going to fundamentally change this deep relationship between our two countries is completely unhistorical.

— Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2016

Definition of unhistorical

Adjective

Hinton offered a hypothetical scenario of an AI tasked with reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026
Some proponents contend that emphasizing existential threats from a hypothetical future superintelligence can serve as a distraction from the more immediate harms and accountability issues surrounding AI today.

— Katie McQue, NPR, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of hypothetical

Adjective

The series opens with Harrelson decamping with his fictionalized family to McConaughey’s ranch in Austin after the wedding of his oldest daughter, Olive (Highdee Kuan), falls apart.

— Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026
The YouTuber appears as a fictionalized version of himself, first as an investor and then as a competitor.

— Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of fictionalized

Adjective

And if people don’t have the agency to use either effectively, much of the theoretical value stays theoretical.

— Prithvi Singh Shergill, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
In some versions of this test, the option to self-medicate came at a cost, either to the success of its task or as a theoretical attack on the user.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Sep. 2026

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