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Notional

Notional Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Notional? [adj] not based on fact or investigation; "a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs"; "speculative knowledge" [adj] being or of the nature of a notion or concept; "a plan abstract and conceptional"; "to improve notional comprehension"; "a notional response to the question" [adj] indulging in or influenced by fancy; "a fanciful mind"; "all the notional vagaries of childhood" [adj] not based on fact; dubious; "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" [adj] (grammar) having descriptive value as distinguished from syntactic category; "sex is a notional category; gender is a syntactic one" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Notional: abstract \| conceptional \| creative \| fanciful \| ideational \| imaginary \| imagined \| originative \| speculative \| theoretic \| theoretical \| unreal Related Terms \| Find terms related to Notional: abstract \| academic \| arbitrary \| armchair \| baroque \| bizarre \| brain-born \| capricious \| conceptive \| conceptual \| conjectural \| cranky \| creative \| crotchety \| dream-built \| esemplastic \| extravagant \| fancied \| fanciful \| fancy-born \| fancy-built \| fancy-woven \| fantasied \| fantasque \| fantastic \| fecund \| fertile \| fictive \| flaky \| florid \| freakish \| germinal \| Gothic \| grotesque \| harebrained \| humorsome \| hypothetic \| ideal \| ideational \| ideative \| ideological \| illusory \| imaginary \| imaginational \| imaginative \| imagined \| impractical \| ingenious \| inspired \| inventive \| kinky \| maggoty \| moody \| moot \| motiveless \| nonexistent \| original \| originative \| outlandish \| petulant \| postulatory \| pregnant \| preposterous \| productive \| prolific \| quirky \| rococo \| seminal \| shadowy \| shaping \| speculative \| supposititious \| teeming \| temperamental \| theoretical \| unactual \| unreal \| unreasonable \| unrestrained \| vagarious \| vagrant \| visional \| visioned \| wanton \| wayward \| whimsical \| wild See Also \| Notional In Webster's Dictionary \No"tion*al\, a. 1. Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing abstract conceptions. 2. Existing in idea only; visionary; whimsical. Discourses of speculative and notional things. --Evelyn. 3. Given to foolish or visionary expectations; whimsical; fanciful; as, a notional man.

Notional Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Notional?

[adj] not based on fact or investigation; "a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs"; "speculative knowledge"
[adj] being or of the nature of a notion or concept; "a plan abstract and conceptional"; "to improve notional comprehension"; "a notional response to the question"
[adj] indulging in or influenced by fancy; "a fanciful mind"; "all the notional vagaries of childhood"
[adj] not based on fact; dubious; "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"
[adj] (grammar) having descriptive value as distinguished from syntactic category; "sex is a notional category; gender is a syntactic one"

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Notional In Webster's Dictionary

\No"tion*al\, a.
1. Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing
   abstract conceptions.

2. Existing in idea only; visionary; whimsical.

         Discourses of speculative and notional things.
                                               --Evelyn.

3. Given to foolish or visionary expectations; whimsical;
   fanciful; as, a notional man.

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