Dictionary Definition
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]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
- Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
- This paper proposes a notional Federated Identity Management (FIM) architecture.
- Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
- Concerning the value of an asset.
Extensive Definition
Notional (born February 1, 2004 in California) is
an American
Thoroughbred
racehorse.
He was sired by In Excess and out of the mare Truly Blessed. His
damsire, French Deputy, is a son of the 1997/98
Leading sire in North America, Deputy
Minister.
Notional is trained by Doug O'Neill
for owner J. Paul
Reddam, who also have three-year-olds Great Hunter
and Liquidity
in their stable. Racing at age two, Notional's best showing in a
stakes race was a third in the 2006 Hollywood
Prevue Stakes.
In his three-year-old debut, Notional won
January's Grade
II San
Rafael Stakes at Santa
Anita Park in Arcadia,
California by four lengths under jockey Corey
Nakatani. Sent to the Fair
Grounds Race Course in New
Orleans, Louisiana in February, Notional scored a 2 1/4 length
win in the Risen
Star Stakes under jockey Robby
Albarado in a race where favorite Circular
Quay was seriously impeded as a result of a race
accident.
Notional came in a close second to Scat Daddy in
the Florida
Derby in his last prep before the Kentucky Derby. While he was
set to run the Triple Crown races, Notional suffered a fracture of
his front cannon bone during a work out at Keeneland three weeks
before the running of the Kentucky Derby. He will undergo surgery
for the injury which is not life threatening, but there is question
about whether he will be able to return to racing. He did not run
in any of the Triple Crown races.
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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