What's the difference between fabulous and fictional?

Fabulous


Definition:

  • (a.) Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero.
  • (a.) Passing belief; exceedingly great; as, a fabulous price.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
  • (2) So you can assure young Miss Paulus that it is very possible to be warm and fabulously fashionable at the same time, as this season is all about how to wear as many vests as possible under a loose tunic dress before you begin to take on the dimensions of the Michelin man.
  • (3) The book also featured Lola Montez, the fabulous beauty of the age, and her lover Ludwig, the mad King of Bavaria.
  • (4) Less well known is his collection of works by all the major artists of late 19th-century Britain, pre-Raphaelite painters such as John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones, and later more academic painters, hugely popular and fabulously expensive in their day, including Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Albert Moore, Edward Poynter and the grandest of them all, Frederic Leighton.
  • (5) This happened to be these clocks that Salvador had made for decoration, and Francis and Sonny got so nervous they started eating them, these fabulous candy clocks."
  • (6) Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball (Chatroulette Version) Fabulous balls-up 2.
  • (7) Taken together, these myriad aspects add up to create a fabulously singular and peerless holistic experience that stands alone in its creativity and innovation,” organisers said.
  • (8) I was [looks perplexed]: ‘Where’s the fabulous Madonna ?’ But it was still deeply interesting just to shake this tiny little hand, and say ‘You’re real’, because in the 80s, these people lived on plinths, they never came down to Earth.” This encounter made Patterson realise that celebrity per se didn’t exist.
  • (9) Indeed, lavish media approval of a scheme so fabulously harebrained as Fiennes's can't but suggest continued respect for a version of masculinity that will always reject domesticity and grandmothers in favour of all-male challenges in the Antarctic, or at the golf club, or, failing that, at the House of Commons.
  • (10) He's never too far off the pages of the Sunday supplements and celebrity columns, thanks to his wife, Nigella, and is also fabulously connected to Britain's media and political elites.
  • (11) Remember its fabulously profitable printer inks, which cost more pro rate than champagne?
  • (12) He breathed new life into a somewhat static side, heading their second equaliser from a corner, almost scoring with a fabulously audacious shot and then creating what seemed to be the winner for Mike Williamson.
  • (13) And then, mercifully, I discovered How to Be a Woman, a blistering war-cry of a book urging girls to hurl celery into the bin, "give up on the idea of being fabulous" and instead revel in our glorious imperfections.
  • (14) And by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.
  • (15) The Kalgoorlie-Boulder-Kambalda area in arid inland Western Australia receives its water supply from distant Perth, through a pipeline constructed in the fabulous goldrush period at the turn of the century.
  • (16) To see so many homegrown players was fabulous, too.
  • (17) London's garden bridge: will 'tiara on the head of fabulous city' ever be built?
  • (18) That's not the case Kieran Hodgson But fraudulence is the Armstrong modus operandi as Hodgson’s show – which plays fabulous games with truth and fiction – acknowledges.
  • (19) Few Russians have much time for the oligarchs , who became fabulously wealthy during the 1990s while most people lived in poverty.
  • (20) Distance 6 miles (9.7km) Classification Moderate Duration 3 hours Begins Bathwick Hill OS grid reference ST765640 Walk in a nutshell A moderately long but well-marked circular walk with fabulous views of Bath.

Fictional


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Much less obvious – except in the fictional domain of the C Thomas Howell film Soul Man – is why someone would want to “pass” in the other direction and voluntarily take on the weight of racial oppression.
  • (2) Clute and Harrison took a scalpel to the flaws of the science fiction we loved, and we loved them for it.
  • (3) But it is now widely understood this Thanksgiving story is a fictional history.
  • (4) The fact that Line of Duty is ranked among the best TV fiction for years suggests there is no crisis with the channel.
  • (5) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
  • (6) After heading for Rome with his long-term partner, Howard Auster, he returned to fiction with a bestselling novel, Julian, based on the life of a late Roman emperor; a political novel, Washington DC, based on his own family; and Myra Breckinridge, a subversive satire that examined contradictions of gender and sexuality with enough comic brio to become a worldwide bestseller.
  • (7) He added: "There will be all sorts of science fiction writers who will give their own opinions on what this means, but we don't want to enter that game."
  • (8) An Artist of the Floating World won the Whitbread Book of the Year award and was nominated for the Booker prize for fiction; The Remains of the Day won the Booker; and When We Were Orphans, perceived by many reviewers as a disappointment, was nominated for both the Booker and the Whitbread.
  • (9) DynaTAC became the phone of choice for fictional psychopaths, including Wall Street's Gordon Gekko, American Psycho's Patrick Bateman and Saved by the Bell's Zack Morris.
  • (10) As a critic, he reviewed crime fiction for the Times from 1967 to 1983.
  • (11) Haki's naivety about English detective fiction is more than matched by Latimer's ingenuous excitement as Haki describes to him Dimitrios's sordid career, and he decides it would be fun to write the gangster's biography.
  • (12) Subjects made probability ratings for fictional others who were heavy, moderate, or light drinkers or nondrinkers.
  • (13) And anyway, if her fictional world is so timeless, why has it gone in and out of fashion?
  • (14) Austen couldn't avoid them, nor does her fiction try to.
  • (15) But the new creative director of BBC Films, promoted to the role after last week's BBC fiction shakeup , seems to harbour no such industry-appropriate urges.
  • (16) 23 May More films to see in 2014 • 2014 preview: thrillers • 2014 preview: comedy • 2014 preview: Oscar hopefuls • 2014 preview: science fiction • 2014 preview: romance • 2014 preview: drama • This article was amended on Thursday 2 January 2014.
  • (17) I think he’s one of those people in life who simply doesn’t really understand the difference between fact and fiction.
  • (18) The problem of consciousness is discussed briefly, including the contrary views of consciousness as a transcendental phenomenon and as an animistic fiction.
  • (19) Critical verdict The Tin Drum catapulted Grass to the forefront of European fiction and since then he has been Germany's "permanent Nobel candidate"; of the remainder of the Danzig trilogy, Cat and Mouse is the best regarded.
  • (20) It is tempting to visualise the yawning gap between the real-life equivalents of the fictional Chatsworth Estate, where Shameless is set, and Green Templeton College, Oxford, where Walker works.