Origin: Latin suffix -al
Fictional has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
related to or involving literary fiction
"clever fictional devices"
"a fictional treatment of the train robbery"
formed or conceived by the imagination
"a fabricated excuse for his absence"
"a fancied wrong"
"a fictional character"
Invented, as opposed to real.
"The detective realized that the clues in the novel were purely fictional and wouldn't help solve the actual crime."