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

Rather than shattering the illusion, the heroine invents an increasingly elaborate fictional life to protect her mother — and, ultimately, herself.

— Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 21 July 2026
Her feature-length films include the documentaries The factory is full (2012) and Shores (2015), and the fictional feature Pawn Street (2017).

— Zac Ntim, Deadline, 21 July 2026

Definition of fictional

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During the pandemic boom, cheap money, soaring asset prices, and speculative demand encouraged galleries to expand rapidly—adding artists, opening new locations and building ever larger organizations.

— Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 17 July 2026
The role of commercial satellites in warfare has sparked speculative discussions on their legitimacy as military targets, and what the Pentagon’s role should be in defending them.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 16 July 2026

Definition of speculative

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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

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Set in New York City during the Gilded Age, The Witch of Wall Street is a fictionalized account of the life of Hetty Green, the city’s richest woman at the time.

— Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 10 July 2026
The series follows a fictionalized version of the Westies, a small Irish-American gang in the mid- to late-20th century whose ruthlessness and brutality gave them an outsized reputation.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 2 July 2026

Definition of fictionalized

Adjective

Although the idea of putting data centers into space has long been discussed on a theoretical basis, the technology has rapidly become a red-hot topic.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 15 July 2026
That was driven by the theoretical potential of AI to displace traditional software, but IBM’s profit warning appeared to confirm that a secular shift is now under way.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 July 2026

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