Fictional is an English word with synonyms like nonfictional or fabricated. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Fictional in a sentence
Related words
Fictional meaning
- Invented, as opposed to real.
- Containing invented elements.
- Occurring in fiction.
Synonyms of Fictional
Using Fictional
- The main meaning on this page is: Invented, as opposed to real. | Containing invented elements. | Occurring in fiction.
- Useful related words include: literary composition, literary work, nonfictional, fabricated.
- In the example corpus, fictional often appears in combinations such as: the fictional, fictional character, fictional characters.
Context around Fictional
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 8 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fictional
- In this selection, "fictional" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, non, features, written, characters, character and biographies stand out and add context to how "fictional" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a fictional betting website and a particular fictional or non. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fictional" sits close to words such as ankle, baptist and flagship, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fictional
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A fictional betting website with fictional data. (7 words)
Fictional implications The same phenomenon is true for fictional characters. (10 words)
Fictional Old Etonians Many fictional characters have been described as Old Etonians. (12 words)
I also touch on how even though it's a fictional movie based on decades of fictional comic books that it should absolutely be held to the standards of a 2024 liberal arts student who is still mad at his parents for not being extremely marginalized people. (47 words)
Virtual Enterprise is a competition that challenges high school students to create a fictional product, then launch a fictional business complete with financial plans, operational expenses and anything else a real business would account for. (35 words)
In comic books, continuity has also come to mean a set of contiguous events, sometimes said to be "set in the same universe" (see fictional crossover and fictional universe ) or "separate universes" (see intercompany crossover ). (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
There is no other way to defeat Bohemian Rhapsody except for creating a fictional character that would eliminate the other fictional characters, and thus effectively canceling the Stand's power.
A fictional betting website with fictional data.
I also touch on how even though it's a fictional movie based on decades of fictional comic books that it should absolutely be held to the standards of a 2024 liberal arts student who is still mad at his parents for not being extremely marginalized people.
It felt like they were just fictional characters, like all my other fictional characters, and I was intrigued by them.
The drama also features fictional PNP chief Alejandro Tarante (played by actor Soliman Cruz), who is in cahoots with fictional Vice President Lucas Cabrera (played by Edu Manzano) who is involved in illegal activities.
Virtual Enterprise is a competition that challenges high school students to create a fictional product, then launch a fictional business complete with financial plans, operational expenses and anything else a real business would account for.
Fictional biographies Margaret George has written fictional biographies about historical persons in The Memoirs of Cleopatra (1997) and Mary, called Magdalene (2002).
Fictional history In this fictional universe, the Culture exists concurrently with human society on Earth.
Fictional implications The same phenomenon is true for fictional characters.
Fictional Old Etonians Many fictional characters have been described as Old Etonians.
Fictional uses There have been many fictional emperors in movies and books.
For example: the first name listed on a form might be John Doe, along with a fictional address or other fictional information to provide an example of how to fill in the form.
Formally referred to as method acting : the idea that an individual or group of individuals conducts research on a particular fictional or non-fictional situation.
In comic books, continuity has also come to mean a set of contiguous events, sometimes said to be "set in the same universe" (see fictional crossover and fictional universe ) or "separate universes" (see intercompany crossover ).
In literature and adapted works The city is a particularly popular setting for essays, novels, and other works of fictional or non-fictional literature.
Notable/fictional character It may compare the person with a famous or fictional character.
Real guidebooks to fictional matters A few guides to fictional places have also been published.
The book includes two types of writing: the first lies somewhere between non-fictional essays and short stories, using fictional techniques to tell essentially true stories.
A first-person narrator enters to put much of the book — the real history and the fictional characters — in perspective, offering a sense of how intergenerational trauma can gradually heal itself.
Although it’s a movie about fictional musicians, has filled out its cast with actors working toward careers in music in real life.
Common combinations with fictional
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the fictional 52×
- fictional character 12×
- fictional characters 11×
- fictional story 10×
- in fictional 9×
- of fictional 7×
- fictional town 7×
- this fictional 6×
- and fictional 6×
- to fictional 6×