Notional

/ˈnəʊʃənəl/ · adjective

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: conceptual, fancied, fanciful, ideal

The idea that a rooster says cock-a-doodle-doo rather than ooh ooh-ooh ooh-ooh is socially conventional even though its sound correspondence is at heart notional.

He was now receiving reports of a second suspect Anglo Leasing deal, this time for the notional provision of a state-of-the-art police forensic laboratory.

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.

Under the agreements, Harvard paid the banks fixed interest rates on a total notional amount of $3.52 billion in exchange for floating-rate payments from them.

She knew what Pete would say if she told him about it — he would say she was getting notional; and she did not want Pete to think of her as a notional woman. Notional women sometimes had a hard time marrying unless they had money.

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

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• more notional
• most notional
• notionals

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