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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | improvised |
| Synonyms: | ad hoc, ad-lib, automatic, autoschediastic, by ear, casual, expedient, extemporary, extempore, fake, free, immediate, impromptu, improv, improvisatory, improviso, informal, jamming, made-up, makeshift, offhand, on impulse, on-the-spot, snap, spontaneous, spur-of-the-moment, toss off, toss out, unplanned, unpremeditated, unprepared, unrehearsed, unstudied, winging it |
| Notes: | extemporaneous means 'prepared in advance and carried out with few or no notes' while impromptu means 'totally unprepared, performed on the spur of the moment' - but this distinction has been all but lost |
| Antonyms: | deliberate, planned, premeditated, prepared, rehearsed |
| Main Entry: | chimeric |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary |
| Synonyms: | chimeral, chimerical, delusive, delusory, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, hallucinatory, illusive, illusory, imagined, made-up, notional, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantasmic, unreal, unrealistic, visionary |
| Main Entry: | fictional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictitious |
| Synonyms: | fabricated, fanciful, fictive, imaginary, imagined, invented, made-up, make-believe, pretend |
| Notes: | fictional is pertaining to or found in fiction; fictitious is 'false, fraudulent' or 'non-existent' |
| Main Entry: | fictive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictitious |
| Synonyms: | fabricated, fanciful, fictional, imaginary, imagined, invented, made-up, make-believe, pretend |
| Main Entry: | invented |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictitious |
| Synonyms: | apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bogus*, chimerical, concocted, cooked-up, counterfeit, created, deceptive, delusive, delusory, dishonest, ersatz*, fabricated, factitious, fake*, faked, false, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fashioned, feigned, fictional, fictive, figmental, hyped up, illusory, imaginary, imagined, improvised, made, made-up, make-believe, misleading, mock, mythical, phony, queer, romantic, sham*, simulated, spurious, suppositious, supposititious, synthetic, trumped-up, unreal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mythic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mythical |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, chimerical, created, fabled, fabricated, fabulous, fairy-tale, false, fanciful, fantasy, fictitious, fictive, folkloric, imaginary, invented, legendary, made-up, mythologic, mythological, nonexistent, pretended, storied, supposititious, traditional, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical |
| Main Entry: | mythologic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mythical |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, chimerical, created, fabled, fabricated, fabulous, fairy-tale, false, fanciful, fantasy, fictitious, fictive, folkloric, imaginary, invented, legendary, made-up, mythic, mythological, nonexistent, pretended, storied, supposititious, traditional, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical |
| Main Entry: | mythological |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mythical |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, chimerical, created, fabled, fabricated, fabulous, fairy-tale, false, fanciful, fantasy, fictitious, fictive, folkloric, imaginary, invented, legendary, made-up, mythic, mythologic, nonexistent, pretended, storied, supposititious, traditional, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical |
| Main Entry: | notional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary |
| Synonyms: | abstract, apocryphal, apparitional, assumed, chimeric, chimerical, conceptual, deceptive, delusive, dreamed-up, dreamlike, dreamy, fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fictional, figmental, fool's paradise, hallucinatory, hypothetical, ideal, illusive, illusory, imaginative, imagined, legendary, made-up, mythological, nonexistent, phantasmal, phantasmic, quixotic, shadowy, spectral, supposed, supposititious, theoretical, trumped up, unreal, unsubstantial, visionary, whimsical |
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