NOTIONAL as ADJECTIVE

  1. 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
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  2. Meaning
    • indulging in or influenced by fancy
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • a fanciful mind
    • all the notional vagaries of childhood
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  3. Meaning
    • not based on fact or investigation
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs
    • speculative knowledge
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  4. Meaning
    • not based on fact
    • dubious
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • 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
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  5. Meaning
    • having descriptive value as distinguished from syntactic category
    • gender is a syntactic one”
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    • sex is a notional category
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