Notional

Quick meaning: Notional is an adjective meaning Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.

Meaning

Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.

More Meanings

1. Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
2. (Maine) Stubborn.
3. (linguistics) Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
4. (finance) Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount
5. (informal) Full of ideas or imaginings.
6. A fake company used as a front in espionage.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: conceptual, fancied, fanciful, ideal

This paper proposes a notional Federated Identity Management (FIM) architecture.

Gold traded at $909.00 an ounce, up 0.2 percent from New York's notional close of $906.65 on Wednesday.

Numerous CIA notionals, created to counter Communist organizations in Western Europe during the Cold War years, remain active and unrevealed.

Word Forms

• notionals

Synonyms for notional

Depending on context, synonyms include conceptual, ideal, imaginary, fancied, fanciful, abstract.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ideational, imaginary, imagined, theoretical, theoretic, creative.

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