| 1 |
[ adjective ] related to or involving literary fiction
Examples "clever fictional devices" "a fictional treatment of the train robbery" Used in print (R. F. Shaw, "The `Private Eye`"...)It is from this unpromising background that the fictional private_detective was recruited . As a free-lance investigator , the fictional detective is responsible to no one but himself and his client . On_the_other_hand , the fictional detective does not break strikes or handle divorce cases ; no client would ever think_of asking him to do such things . Whatever his original assignment , the fictional private_eye ends_up by investigating and solving a crime , usually a murder . Thus the fictional detective is much more_than a simple businessman . Related terms |
| 2 |
[ adjective ] formed or conceived by the imagination
Synonyms Examples "a fabricated excuse for his absence" "a fancied wrong" "a fictional character" "used fictitious names" "a made-up story" Related terms |
| 3 |
[ adjective ] formed or conceived by the imagination
Synonyms Examples "a fabricated excuse for his absence" "a fancied wrong" "a fictional character" "used fictitious names" "a made-up story" Used in print (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)Now time is also the concern of the fictional narrative , which is , at its simplest , the story of an action with , usually , a beginning , a middle , and an end - elements which demand time as the first condition for their existence . (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)In method as_well_as in theme this little anecdote with its details selected as much for expressiveness and allegory as for `` realism '' , anticipates a kind of musical_composition , as_well as a kind of fictional composition , in which , as Leverku^hn says , `` there shall be nothing unthematic '' . (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)Gazing at her husband 's drugged body , his chest rising and falling in mindless rhythms , she saw the grandeur of his fictional world , that lush garden from which he plucked flowers and herbs . Related terms |
| * |
|