Fictionish

adj, slang

adj, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Similar to fiction. informal, rare

    "The only fictionish thing about it is his having written it in the first person as he tells the reader plainly. Personally, I own I never heard of Gerald O'Connor before. But that's because I always turned a deaf ear to all the[…]"

Example

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"The only fictionish thing about it is his having written it in the first person as he tells the reader plainly. Personally, I own I never heard of Gerald O'Connor before. But that's because I always turned a deaf ear to all the[…]"

Etymology

From fiction + -ish.

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