FICTIONAL Synonyms

• formed or conceived by the imagination

• adopted in order to deceive

• indulging in or influenced by fancy

• not based on fact; existing only in the imagination

• having a curiously intricate quality

• a hypothetical possibility, circumstance, statement, proposal, situation, etc.

• based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence

• (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1

• not based on fact; existing only in the imagination

• so celebrated as to having taken on the nature of a legend

• celebrated in fable or legend

• having been surfaced (e.g. with asphalt)

• based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity

• lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria

• not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary

• contrived by art rather than nature

• lacking material form or substance; unreal

• come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort

• concoct something artificial or untrue

• formed or conceived by the imagination