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  1. fictionaladjective

    related to or involving literary fiction

    "clever fictional devices"; "a fictional treatment of the train robbery"

    Synonyms:
    fancied, fabricated, fictitious

    Antonyms:
    real, existent, nonfictional

  2. fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitiousadjective

    formed or conceived by the imagination

    "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"

    Synonyms:
    fancied, put on, assumed, sham, false, pretended, fabricated, fictitious, fictive

    Antonyms:
    existent, nonfictional, real

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  1. List of paraphrases for "fictional":

    fictitious, notional, fictive, shadow, novelistic, imaginary, dummy, bogus, sham

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  1. Michael Woods:

    Marlon James fictional retelling of the 1976 attempted murder of Bob Marley. Marlon James, 44, who now lives in Minneapolis and teaches at Macalester College, is the first Jamaican author to win the prize in the British award's 47 years. It's also the first for Marlon James publisher, Oneworld Publications. ' It is a crime novel that moves beyond the world of crime and takes us deep into a recent history we know far too little about. It moves at a terrific pace and will come to be seen as a classic of our times.

  2. Prince Harry:

    It’s fictional, but it’s loosely based on the truth. Of course, it’s not strictly accurate; it gives you a rough idea about what that lifestyle is, the pressures of putting duty and service above family and everything else, what can come from that.

  3. Sylvester Stallone:

    It's an honor to take a fictional character like Rocky and do something in the world of reality.

  4. Stephen Hearst:

    My logic back then was very simple, this was an opportunity to clarify the record, to draw the distinction between the fictional character of Charlie Kane and his gloomy Xanadu and WR Hearst and his beautiful architectural masterpiece at the top of the hill at San Simeon.

  5. Andrew Evangelista:

    The girl Hannah, even though she is fictional, teens -- if vulnerable and at risk -- may identity with her.


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