Meanings
- not comparablePartially but not entirely fictional
1 more example
As emotionally powerful as this is, there is a slight disconnect here: he is describing events in Vietnam that actually happened (stunning, little-remembered details about the American evacuation, including the story of the last two Americans to die, in John Kerry ’s words, “for a mistake”), but the events in Michigan — his father’s drunkenness and isolation, the disintegration of his parents’ marriage — are a semifictional, if plausible, recreation of what Bissell imagines his father to have been like during that time.
2007 March 4, Joe Klein, “Nam and Pop”, in New York Times
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*sem-
- Proto-Indo-European*sēmi
- Latinsēmi-
- Englishsemi-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeyǵʰ-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰinéǵʰti
- Proto-Italic*θingō
- Proto-Italic*fingō
- Latinfingō
- Latinfictiō
- Old Frenchficcion
- Middle Englishficcioun
- Englishfiction
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishfictional
- Englishsemifictional
Cite this entry
semifictional. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/semifictional
“semifictional.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/semifictional. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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