Notional

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
  • adj. Speculative or theoretical.
  • adj. Linguistics Conveying an idea of a thing or of an action; having full lexical meaning as distinguished from relational meaning. The word did is notional in We did the work and relational in We did not agree.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
  • adj. Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
  • adj. Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
  • adj. Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing abstract conceptions.
  • adj. Existing in idea only; visionary; whimsical.
  • adj. Given to foolish or visionary expectations; whimsical; fanciful.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to or expressing a notion or general conception; formed by abstraction and generalization; also, produced by metaphysical or logical reflection.
  • Imaginary; ideal; existing in idea only; visionary; fantastical.
  • Dealing in imaginary things; whimsical; fanciful: as, a notional man.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. indulging in or influenced by fancy
  • adj. being of the nature of a notion or concept
  • adj. not based on fact; unreal
  • adj. not based on fact or investigation
  • Equivalent
    creative    originative    abstract    unreal    theoretical    theoretic   
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    visionary    whimsical    fanciful   
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