notional

notional
    adj 1: 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}]
    2: not based on fact or investigation; "a notional figure of
       cost helps in determining production costs"; "speculative
       knowledge" [syn: {notional}, {speculative}]
    3: indulging in or influenced by fancy; "a fanciful mind"; "all
       the notional vagaries of childhood" [syn: {fanciful},
       {notional}]
    4: 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}]
    

Notional \No"tion*al\, a.
   1. Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing
      abstract conceptions.
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   2. Existing in idea only; visionary; whimsical.
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            Discourses of speculative and notional things.
                                                  --Evelyn.
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   3. Given to foolish or visionary expectations; whimsical;
      fanciful; as, a notional man.
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87 Moby Thesaurus words for "notional":
      Gothic, 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, 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