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fictionalise

fictionalise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of fictionalize.

Meaning of fictionalize

Verb

fictionalize (third-person singular simple present fictionalizes, present participle fictionalizing, simple past and past participle fictionalized)

  1. (transitive) To retell (something) real (e.g., an event or series of events) as if it were fiction; especially, to do so in a way that departs from reality in any extent from mild to extensive (from minor details to essential substance).
    • a lightly fictionalized account of [X]
    1. (transitive) To convert (something) real into a novel or other dramatic work.

Forms of fictionalise

third-person singular presentfictionalises
present participlefictionalising
past participlefictionalised
pastfictionalised

Questions about fictionalise

What is fictionalise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Fictionalise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of fictionalize.

Words near fictionalise in the dictionary

  1. fictional documentaries
  2. fictional documentary
  3. fictional other
  4. fictionalisation
  5. fictionalisations
  6. fictionalise
  7. fictionalised
  8. fictionaliser
  9. fictionalisers
  10. fictionalises
  11. fictionalising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fictionalise (page history and authors); fictionalize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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