 notional |
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| 1. | [ adjective ] indulging in or influenced by fancy | |
| Synonyms: | fanciful | |
| Examples: | "a fanciful mind" "all the notional vagaries of childhood" |
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| Related terms: | creative | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] not based on fact or investigation | |
| Synonyms: | speculative | |
| Examples: | "a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs" "speculative knowledge" |
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| Related terms: | theoretical | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] not based on fact; dubious | |
| Synonyms: | imaginary imagined fanciful | |
| Examples: | "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt "a small child's imaginary friends" "her imagined fame" "to create a notional world for oneself" |
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| Related terms: | unreal | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] (grammar) having descriptive value as distinguished from syntactic category | |
| Examples: | "sex is a notional category gender is a syntactic one" |
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| Related terms: | grammar notion | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] being or of the nature of a notion or concept | |
| Synonyms: | ideational conceptional | |
| Examples: | "a plan abstract and conceptional" "to improve notional comprehension" "a notional response to the question" |
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| Related terms: | abstract | |
| Similar spelling: |
national not_only nationally nationalize nationality nationalist nationalism nationalise |
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