what does notional mean?
NOTIONAL as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- being (or being of the nature of) a notion or concept
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- a plan abstract and conceptional
- to improve notional comprehension
- a notional response to the question
Similar To
- Meaning
- indulging in or influenced by fancy
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- a fanciful mind
- all the notional vagaries of childhood
Similar To
- Meaning
- not based on fact or investigation
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- a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs
- speculative knowledge
Similar To
- Meaning
- not based on fact
- dubious
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- the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties- F.D.Roosevelt
- a small child’’s imaginary friends
- her imagined fame
- to create a notional world for oneself
Similar To
- Meaning
- having descriptive value as distinguished from syntactic category
- gender is a syntactic one”
Usage Example(s)
- sex is a notional category
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