Synonyms for fictional
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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. Joaquin Phoenix:

   The attraction to make this film and this character was that we were going to approach it in our own way so for me I didn't refer to any past creations of the character, i did identify Arthur as a particular personality but then I also wanted the freedom to create something that wasn't identifiable. This is a fictional character and I didn't want a psychiatrist to be able to identify the kind of person he was.

2. Mykhailo Podolyak:

   Ru-propaganda lives in a fictional world : [ Ukrainian ] woman and her 12-year-old child were' assigned' responsible for blowing up the car of Darya Dugina. Surprisingly, they did not find the' Estonian visa' on the spot.

3. Isaac Asimov:

   It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

4. Brandon Garic Notch:

   As soon as you are born, you're given a name, a religion, a nationality and a race. You spend the rest of your life defining and defending a fictional identity.

5. Sir Dennis Hamilton:

   I get the biggest kick out of people who claim to be related to the Queen and Royal Family. The truth of the matter is most are truly related, they're just cousins 15 times removed! They're more likely to blood kin to Lady Mary Crawley! (Referencing the fictional story "Downton Abbey")