notional
英['nəʊʃ(ə)n(ə)l]
美['noʃənl]
英英释意
- 1. having descriptive value as distinguished from syntactic category;
- "sex is a notional category; gender is a syntactic one"
- 2. not based on fact; dubious;
- "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt
- "a small child's imaginary friends"
- "her imagined fame"
- "to create a notional world for oneself"
- 3. not based on fact or investigation;
- "a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs"
- "speculative knowledge"
- 4. indulging in or influenced by fancy;
- "a fanciful mind"
- "all the notional vagaries of childhood"
- 5. being (or being of the nature of) a notion or concept;
- "a plan abstract and conceptional"
- "to improve notional comprehension"
- "a notional response to the question"