fictional
/ˈfɪkʃənl/adjective
उच्चारण फ़िक्शनल
काल्पनिक, कल्पित (कहानियों में)
Core wordPYP · asked 4 times
Asked in previous papers
as synonym
- 1
not real or true; existing only in stories
काल्पनिक, कल्पित (कहानियों में)
- Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective.
- a fictional village in the novel
- Malgudi is a fictional town created by R. K. Narayan.
+ 2 more examples
- All the characters in this film are fictional.
- The fictional hero in her novel is a young forest officer.
Synonyms imaginary invented made-up fabricated fictitious
Opposite real actual factual historical
§Structures (grammar patterns) 5
fictional + noun
Use fictional before a noun for people, places or events that exist only in stories.
Noun से पहले 'fictional' केवल कहानियों में मौजूद व्यक्तियों, स्थानों या घटनाओं के लिए आता है।
- Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective.
- Malgudi is a fictional town in Narayan's stories.
be fictional (after linking verb)
After be, fictional says that something is made up, not real.
'Be' के बाद 'fictional' बताता है कि कोई चीज़ काल्पनिक है, वास्तविक नहीं।
- All the characters in this novel are fictional.
loosely based on / purely fictional
Adverbs show how much of a story is invented.
Adverb बताते हैं कि कहानी कितनी काल्पनिक है।
- The film is purely fictional, though set in real Delhi.
fictional vs fictitious
Fictional means from fiction in books and films; fictitious means false or invented to deceive.
'Fictional' का अर्थ पुस्तकों और फ़िल्मों की कथा से है; 'fictitious' का अर्थ धोखे के लिए गढ़ा हुआ झूठा है।
- He used a fictitious address to open the account.
fictional (noun forms)
The related nouns are fiction (the genre) and fictionalise (verb).
संबंधित शब्द 'fiction' (विधा) और 'fictionalise' (क्रिया) हैं।
- The writer fictionalised her grandfather's life.
+Collocations 4
fictional + noun
charactertownheroaccountstory
- Feluda is a popular fictional detective.
adverb + fictional
entirelypurelywhollypartlylargely
- The village in the novel is wholly fictional.
fictional + setting
worldkingdomcityislandvillage
- The writer created a fictional kingdom.
based on + fictional
based on factinspired by factloosely basedset indrawn from
- The film is loosely based on a true story, but its hero is fictional.
“More examples 5
- Hogwarts is a fictional school.
हॉगवर्ट्स एक काल्पनिक विद्यालय है।
- The characters in this book are fictional.
इस पुस्तक के पात्र काल्पनिक हैं।
- Radhika loves fictional detectives more than real ones.
राधिका को असली जासूसों की अपेक्षा काल्पनिक जासूस अधिक पसंद हैं।
- The film has a real battle but a fictional hero.
फ़िल्म में युद्ध वास्तविक है पर नायक काल्पनिक है।
- The play shows a fictional meeting between two great poets.
नाटक दो महान कवियों की एक काल्पनिक भेंट दिखाता है।
!Common mistakes 3
✗ He gave a fictional name at the hotel to cheat.
✓ He gave a fictitious name at the hotel to cheat.
A false name given to deceive is fictitious, not fictional.
धोखा देने के लिए दिया गया झूठा नाम 'fictitious' होता है, 'fictional' नहीं।
✗ Raju is a fiction character in the novel.
✓ Raju is a fictional character in the novel.
Fiction is a noun; the adjective fictional is needed before character.
'Fiction' noun है; 'character' से पहले adjective 'fictional' चाहिए।
✗ The writer wrote a fictious story.
✓ The writer wrote a fictional story.
Fictious is not a word; the spelling is fictional.
'Fictious' कोई शब्द नहीं है; सही वर्तनी 'fictional' है।
≠Thesaurus: which synonym when
Fictional, imaginary and fictitious all mean not real, but each has its own use.
तीनों का अर्थ वास्तविक न होना है, पर हर एक का अपना प्रयोग है।
Existing only in stories, films and plays.
केवल कहानियों, फ़िल्मों और नाटकों में विद्यमान।
- A fictional hero.
◇Word family
≈Synonyms and antonyms
AaSpelling
fic·tion·al
With -tional (not 'fictionel').
अंत में -tional ('fictionel' गलत है)।
?Which word?
fictional or fictitious?
Fictional describes characters, places and events in stories: 'a fictional hero'. Fictitious describes something invented in real life to deceive: 'a fictitious name on the form', 'fictitious accounts'. A novelist creates fictional characters; a fraudster gives a fictitious address.
Fictional कहानियों के पात्रों, स्थानों और घटनाओं के लिए है: 'a fictional hero'। Fictitious वास्तविक जीवन में धोखा देने के लिए गढ़ी चीज़ के लिए है: 'a fictitious name on the form', 'fictitious accounts'। उपन्यासकार fictional पात्र बनाता है; धोखेबाज़ fictitious पता देता है।
The fictional/fictitious pair is a sentence-improvement item.
Fictional और fictitious की जोड़ी sentence improvement में आती है।
Keep apart fiction (stories), non-fiction (factual writing) and science fiction (stories about the future and science).
Fiction (कहानियाँ), non-fiction (तथ्यात्मक लेखन) और science fiction (भविष्य और विज्ञान की कहानियाँ) को अलग रखिए।