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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Notional \No"tion*al\, a.
     1. Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing
        abstract conceptions.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Existing in idea only; visionary; whimsical.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Discourses of speculative and notional things.
                                                    --Evelyn.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. Given to foolish or visionary expectations; whimsical;
        fanciful; as, a notional man.
        [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Notional \No"tion*al\, a.
     1. Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing
        abstract conceptions.
  
     2. Existing in idea only; visionary; whimsical.
  
              Discourses of speculative and notional things.
                                                    --Evelyn.
  
     3. Given to foolish or visionary expectations; whimsical;
        fanciful; as, a notional man.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  notional
       adj 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" [syn: fanciful, imaginary,
           imagined]
       3: not based on fact or investigation; "a notional figure of
          cost helps in determining production costs"; "speculative
          knowledge" [syn: speculative]
       4: indulging in or influenced by fancy; "a fanciful mind"; "all
          the notional vagaries of childhood" [syn: fanciful]
       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"
          [syn: conceptional, ideational]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  notional
     a.
     1 Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
     2 Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
     3 (lb en linguistics) Having descriptive value as opposed to a
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic%20category.
     4 (lb en finance) (non-gloss definition: Used to indicate an estimate
  or a reference amount)
     n.
     A fake company used as a front in espionage.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  notional
     a.
     1 Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
     2 Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
     3 (lb en linguistics) Having descriptive value as opposed to a
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic%20category.
     4 (lb en finance) (non-gloss definition: Used to indicate an estimate
  or a reference amount)
     n.
     A fake company used as a front in espionage.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  notional
     a.
     1 Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
     2 Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
     3 (lb en linguistics) Having descriptive value as opposed to a
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic%20category.
     4 (lb en finance) (non-gloss definition: Used to indicate an estimate
  or a reference amount)
     n.
     A fake company used as a front in espionage.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  notional
     a.
     1 Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
     2 Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
     3 (lb en linguistics) Having descriptive value as opposed to a
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic%20category.
     4 (lb en finance) (non-gloss definition: Used to indicate an estimate
  or a reference amount)
     n.
     A fake company used as a front in espionage.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  notional
     Englanti a.
     1 hypoteettinen, kuvitteellinen
     2 käsitteellinen

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Notional /nˈəʊʃənəl/
  نظري

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  notional //ˈnəʊʃənəl// 
  1. абстрактен, умозрителен
  of, containing, or being a notion
  2. въображаем
  speculative, theoretical

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  notional /nˈəʊʃənəl/
  pomyslný

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  notional /nˈəʊʃənəl/
  begrifflich , Begriffs…

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  notional /nˈəʊʃənəl/
  fiktiv, angenommen, imaginär 

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  notional /nˈəʊʃənəl/
  spekulativ, rein gedanklich, theoretisch 

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  notional //ˈnəʊʃənəl// 
  1. viite
  finance: estimated or reference
  2. kuvaileva
  linguistics: having descriptive value
  3. kuvitteellinen 2.
  of, containing, or being a notion
   3.
  speculative, theoretical

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  notional /nˈəʊʃənəl/ 
  1. काल्पनिक
        "My estimate is based on notional figures."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  notional /nˈəʊʃənəl/
  apstraktan, fiktivni, idejni, po smislu, po značenju, uobražen, vjerojatni, zamišljen

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  notional /nˈəʊʃənəl/
  1. képzelt
  2. képzelôdô
  3. álmodozó
  4. fogalmi
  5. spekulatív
  6. képzeletbeli

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈnoʊʃənəɫ/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  87 Moby Thesaurus words for "notional":
     Gothic, abstract, academic, arbitrary, armchair, baroque, bizarre,
     brain-born, capricious, conceptive, conceptual, conjectural,
     cranky, creative, crotchety, dream-built, esemplastic, extravagant,
     fancied, fanciful, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasied,
     fantasque, fantastic, fecund, fertile, fictive, flaky, florid,
     freakish, germinal, grotesque, harebrained, humorsome, hypothetic,
     ideal, ideational, ideative, ideological, illusory, imaginary,
     imaginational, imaginative, imagined, impractical, ingenious,
     inspired, inventive, kinky, maggoty, moody, moot, motiveless,
     nonexistent, original, originative, outlandish, petulant,
     postulatory, pregnant, preposterous, productive, prolific, quirky,
     rococo, seminal, shadowy, shaping, speculative, supposititious,
     teeming, temperamental, theoretical, unactual, unreal,
     unreasonable, unrestrained, vagarious, vagrant, visional, visioned,
     wanton, wayward, whimsical, wild
  
  

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 概念的,想象的

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