Notional is an English word with synonyms like fanciful or ideational. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Notional meaning
- Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
- Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
- Stubborn.
Synonyms of Notional
Using Notional
- The main meaning on this page is: Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary. | Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research. | Stubborn.
- Useful related words include: fanciful, ideational, conceptional, originative.
- In the example corpus, notional often appears in combinations such as: the notional, of notional, notional as.
Context around Notional
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 10 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Notional
- In this selection, "notional" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mostly, six, larger, loss, defender and penalty stand out and add context to how "notional" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include also a notional distance if and electrons form notional shells around. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "notional" sits close to words such as aayog, absentees and accruing, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with notional
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The savings projected are false and notional. (7 words)
He was a notional defender who constantly went forward. (9 words)
Until now, however, the idea has remained mostly notional. (9 words)
This notional storytelling, meanwhile, is interspersed with passages of droll, quiet slapstick — often hinging on man-versus-machine haplessness — and spacey song breaks that run the gamut from fado-esque folk to glum death metal. (35 words)
Former South Carolina governor also joined the GOP presidential primary race over the weekend, bringing to three — along with Walsh and former Massachusetts governor — the number of notional 2020 rivals to Trump. (32 words)
But he argued that the question for any pact should be whether a concrete, real-world deal is “acceptable” for everyone, rather than a notional agreement that’s “optimal” for all. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
The notional loss, as the word indicates, is only theoretical.
When a stock falls, immediately the market capitalisation of the company falls but the investor wealth loss reported by media is mostly notional for many investors.
He was a notional defender who constantly went forward.
He was banned from driving for six months and given six notional penalty points.
Menzies has flipped from a Liberal seat to a notional Labor seat with a 0.4% margin, while the Liberal margin in Deakin has been cut down to almost nothing.
Notional learning refers to the designated time required for an average student to achieve specific outcomes.
On the other hand, at an average price of $42 a barrel, that’s still $1.4 trillion of notional revenue just for the upstream bit of the industry.
The savings projected are false and notional.
Until now, however, the idea has remained mostly notional.
But he argued that the question for any pact should be whether a concrete, real-world deal is “acceptable” for everyone, rather than a notional agreement that’s “optimal” for all.
Former South Carolina governor also joined the GOP presidential primary race over the weekend, bringing to three — along with Walsh and former Massachusetts governor — the number of notional 2020 rivals to Trump.
It proposed to extend the period of exemption from levy of tax on notional rent on a second self-occupied house.
Pakistan continues with that policy, irrespective of who occupies political power, a power that is just notional, as the real power is wielded by the army and the ISI.
This notional storytelling, meanwhile, is interspersed with passages of droll, quiet slapstick — often hinging on man-versus-machine haplessness — and spacey song breaks that run the gamut from fado-esque folk to glum death metal.
But the general effect is of a notional dress.
A potential problem with derivatives is that they comprise an increasingly larger notional amount of assets which may lead to distortions in the underlying capital and equities markets themselves.
As with defined contribution designs, plan benefits are expressed in the terms of a notional account balance, and are usually paid as cash balances upon termination of employment.
A system is separated from the remainder of the universe by a boundary which may be notional or not, but which by convention delimits a finite volume.
Cooee is also a notional distance: if he's within cooee, we'll spot him.
Electronic configuration Electrons form notional shells around the nucleus.
Common combinations with notional
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the notional 7×
- of notional 7×
- notional as 3×
- this notional 3×
- notional amount 3×
- mostly notional 2×
- to notional 2×
- notional agreement 2×
- on notional 2×
- notional observer 2×