notional
adjective
pertaining to or expressing a notion or idea.
notionally
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a word derived from
notional.
Example Sentences
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It was first put on display at the Patent Office in 1841, notionally in a place of honor but, unfortunately, across from a large window.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
ICC judges also said in their decision on Monday that the mental capacities needed to "meaningfully exercise one's procedural and fair trial rights" did not have to be "at their notionally highest level".
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2026
Pricing could be a challenge: Zepbound and Wegovy are both expensive enough on their own, and taking an Arrowhead drug on top of those prescriptions would notionally mean a significant add-on to that price.
From Barron's ● Jan. 6, 2026
He thought that reboots might work, at least notionally, and could even be innovative if the animating idea were persuasive enough.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
There is one thing that will not be pictured, cannot be made notionally present to the mind by any effort of the imagination—one thing that requires the purest faith: a man's own ignorance and incapacity.
From There & Back by George MacDonald
