'Notional' definitions:
Definition of 'notional'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Not based on fact; unreal; "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "to create a notional world for oneself" [syn: fanciful, imaginary, notional]
adjective
Not based on fact or investigation; "a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs"; "speculative knowledge" [syn: notional, speculative]
adjective
Indulging in or influenced by fancy; "a fanciful mind"; "all the notional vagaries of childhood" [syn: fanciful, notional]
adjective
Being of the nature of a notion or concept; "a plan abstract and conceptional"; "to improve notional comprehension"; "a notional response to the question" [syn: conceptional, ideational, notional]
Definition of 'Notional'
From: GCIDE
- Notional \No"tion*al\, a.
- 1. Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing abstract conceptions. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Existing in idea only; visionary; whimsical. [1913 Webster]
- Discourses of speculative and notional things. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Given to foolish or visionary expectations; whimsical; fanciful; as, a notional man. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'notional'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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