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fictionary
UK /ˈfɪkʃən(ə)ɹi/ US /ˈfɪkʃəˌnɛɹi/
noun 2adj 1
Collocations
3ADJ.
fun, scientific, theological
VERB + FICTIONARY
game
ADV.
actually, purely
Definitions
adj
1
Fictional.
I used to spend my mornings in the large, deserted drawing-room, whose charm was not yet broken, inditing ardent letters, into which my whole soul undisguised, was breathed to an imaginary friend; or writing some fragmentary sketches of the life of some fictionary favourite of fortune, in whose fate I always foreshadowed my own.
Lastly, there were not a few scholars who, discarding the idea that myths were purely fictionary, and admitting a basis of reality, yet found that basis not in historical occurrence but in natural phenomena.
noun
1
A parlor game in which participants invent definitions for an unfamiliar word found in a dictionary, and as one person reads them out, the others try to guess which one is the correct definition.
I generally hate playing games, but recently I was introduced to one that I think is actually fun: fictionary.
One of our favorites is Fictionary, which we play on holidays or during storms.
2
A dictionary with contrived entries.
Daffynitions appear in fictionaries, not dictionaries, and they add hidden dimensions to the words they describe.
From anemoia to zagreb: how ‘fictionaries’ are liberating the word [title]
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I used to spend my mornings in the large, deserted drawing-room, whose charm was not yet broken, inditing ardent letters, into which my whole soul undisguised, was breathed to an imaginary friend; or
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Lastly, there were not a few scholars who, discarding the idea that myths were purely fictionary, and admitting a basis of reality, yet found that basis not in historical occurrence but in natural phe
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Omitting, for the occasion, all thought of Anglo-Saxon literary remains, histories, chronicles, theological, fictionary, and scientific works, the entire number of documentary evidences, such as chart
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I generally hate playing games, but recently I was introduced to one that I think is actually fun: fictionary.
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One of our favorites is Fictionary, which we play on holidays or during storms.
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Turns out, it's reminiscent of the game of Fictionary that was the hit of a recent Thanksgiving at my home (see below).
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