Notional - Definition

adj 1: not based on fact; unreal; "the falsehood about some
fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small
child's imaginary friends"; "to create a notional world
for oneself" [syn: fanciful, imaginary, notional]
2: not based on fact or investigation; "a notional figure of
cost helps in determining production costs"; "speculative
knowledge" [syn: notional, speculative]
3: indulging in or influenced by fancy; "a fanciful mind"; "all
the notional vagaries of childhood" [syn: fanciful,
notional]
4: being of the nature of a notion or concept; "a plan abstract
and conceptional"; "to improve notional comprehension"; "a
notional response to the question" [syn: conceptional,
ideational, notional]