fictional

CEFRB1

/ˈfɪkʃənəl/

adjective

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Including both factual and fictional books would have reduced the value of the study; it would have made the content too heterogeneous for the drawing of significant conclusions.
1956, Barbara Anne Monroe, An Investigation of Fictional Books for Children which Deal with the American Indian in the United States
Nineteen Eighty-Four was written in 1949. Its nightmarish fictional world is now 37 years in the past, so one might reasonably conclude that Orwell was far too pessimistic, but his great book was less a prediction than a warning, and above all an analysis of the totalitarian mentality.
2021 January 5, Peter Foster, “Peter Foster: Sustainable Newspeak by 2050”, in Financial Post
While the jury saw the Sopranos episode in which Adriana was killed for cooperating with the FBI, Mr. Ferro argued to the jury the difference between the fictional TV show from the reality of this trial.
2007, Robert Mladinich, Hooked Up for Murder, page 371
Tunnels often feature in fictional journeys, so I will end with quotations from a fairly recent novel, Howard Spring's "Fame is the Spur", published in 1940, in which there is a journey from Manchester to Bradford via the Calder Valley route: "Ay, we're going through Todmorden. We'll soon be in t' tunnel, and when we get to t' other end we'll be in Yorkshire," and "Ah think this is t' filthiest tunnel in t' world."
1957 May 26, Neil Caplan, “Railways in English Fiction”, in Railway Magazine, page 350

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From fiction + -al.