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. Michael Woods:

   Marlon James fictional retelling of the 1976 attempted murder of Bob Marley. Marlon James, 44, who now lives in Minneapolis and teaches at Macalester College, is the first Jamaican author to win the prize in the British award's 47 years. It's also the first for Marlon James publisher, Oneworld Publications. ' It is a crime novel that moves beyond the world of crime and takes us deep into a recent history we know far too little about. It moves at a terrific pace and will come to be seen as a classic of our times.

2. Cavalier Johnson:

   It is important not to feel numbed by the ongoing violence in our community, a horrible crime has again occurred, and it is not a movie or a fictional account. These victims died in our city, in one of our neighborhoods.

3. Elizabeth Warren:

   Not Pocahontas, the fictional character most Americans know from the movies, but Pocahontas, the Native woman who really lived, and whose real story has been passed down to so many of you through the generations.

4. Fiona Hill:

   Based on questions and statements I have heard, some of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country — and that perhaps, somehow, for some reason, Ukraine did, this is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services themselves.

5. 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.