fictional

English

Etymology

fiction +‎ -al

Adjective

Wikipedia

fictional (comparative more fictional, superlative most fictional)

1. Invented, as opposed to real.

   Romeo and Juliet are fictional characters.

   The janitor's account of the crime turned out to be entirely fictional.

Related terms

• fictive
• fictitious
• fictitional

Translations

invented, as opposed to real

• Bulgarian: измислен (bg) (izmislen), въображаем (bg) (vǎobražaem)
• Catalan: ficcional (ca) m and f
• Danish: opdigtet (da)
• Dutch: fictief (nl)
• Finnish: kuvitteellinen (fi), fiktiivinen (fi)
• French: fictif (fr) m, fictive (fr) f
• German: fiktiv (de), fiktional (de), erfunden (de), ausgedacht (de)

• Hungarian: kitalált (hu), fiktív (hu)
• Icelandic: skáldskapar- (is), uppspunninn (is) m, skáldaður (is) m, tilbúinn (is) m, upploginn (is) m
• Polish: fikcyjny (pl)
• Spanish: de ficción, novelado, ficticio (es)
• Swahili: -a kubuniwa (sw)
• Swedish: fiktiv (sv)

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• Spanish: ficcional m and f