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Notional

Notional Meaning & Definition
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

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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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