notional
- s not based on fact; unreal
to create a notional world for oneself - s not based on fact or investigation
a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs - s indulging in or influenced by fancy
all the notional vagaries of childhood - s being of the nature of a notion or concept
to improve notional comprehension
a notional response to the question
- But because he isn't really contesting New Hampshire, Giuliani is not really part of that new and worried sweepstakes remarkable for someone who proclaimed himself the notional .
- As for the still notional public-private fund that Treasury hopes will buy up the toxic mortgage-backed assets that have crippled the financial and credit markets, it was unclear .
- A "Tuscan Shrimp Salad" bears only a notional relationship to Tuscany, where I have never seen the discordant, more-Asian-than-Italian marriage of almonds, shrimp, sun-dried .