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metafictional

metafictional adjective: of, relating to, or being metafiction.

Adjective

metafictional (not comparable)

  1. Of, relating to, or being metafiction.
    • Full of sly jokes, riddles and metafictional high-jinks, his work had the voltage of a thriller (offering a rare voice of disapproval, the New Yorker critic James Wood accused his works of pedalling a “B-movie atmosphere”).2024 May 1, Lisa Allardice, “Brooklyn’s bard: Paul Auster’s tricksy fiction captivated a generation”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC

Origin of metafictional

From meta- + fictional.

Words formed from metafictional

Questions about metafictional

What does metafictional mean?
Metafictional means of, relating to, or being metafiction.
What part of speech is metafictional?
Metafictional is an adjective.

Words near metafictional in the dictionary

  1. metafemoral
  2. metafemur
  3. metafic
  4. metafics
  5. metafiction
  6. metafictional
  7. metafictionality
  8. metafictionally
  9. metafictionist
  10. metafictionists
  11. metafictions

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