Word Meanings - FICTIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic."Fictional rather than historical." Latham.

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• RATHER
  Prior; earlier; former. Now no man dwelleth at the rather town. Sir J. Mandeville.
• ROMANTICAL
  Romantic.
• ROMANTICIST
  One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley.
• FICTIONIST
  A writer of fiction. Lamb.
• ROMANTICALY
  In a romantic manner.
• ROMANTIC
  1. Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking. Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and impious, more
• FICTION
  An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth. Wharton. 5. Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue. Syn. --
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• FICTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic."Fictional rather than historical." Latham.
• CHARACTERIZE
  1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
• ROMANTICNESS
  The state or quality of being romantic; widness; fancifulness. Richardson.
• HISTORICALLY
  In the manner of, or in accordance with, history.
• ROMANTICLY
  Romantically. Strype.
• CHARACTERIZATION
  The act or process of characterizing.
• FICTITIOUS
  Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame. The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones. Pope. -- Fic*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Fic*ti"tious*ness, n.
• ROMANTICISM
  A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi He may be said to have begun the
• HISTORIC; HISTORICAL
  Of or pertaining to history, or the record of past events; as, an historical poem; the historic page. -- His*tor"ic*al*ness, n. -- His*to*ric"i*ty, n. There warriors frowning in historic brass. Pope. Historical painting, that branch of painting
• NECROMANTIC; NECROMANTICAL
  Of or pertaining to necromancy; performed by necromancy. -- Nec`ro*man"tic*al*ly, adv.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• HYDROMANTIC
  Of or pertaining to divination by water.
• SEMIHISTORICAL
  Half or party historical. Sir G. C. Lewis.
• ASTROMANTIC
  Of or pertaining to divination by means of the stars; astrologic. Dr. H. More.
• PYROMANTIC
  Of or pertaining to pyromancy.