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Fictional vs Squaresville - What's the difference?

fictional | squaresville |

As an adjective fictional

is invented, as opposed to real.

As a proper noun squaresville is

a fictional or generic location occupied by unfashionable people.

fictional

English

Adjective

(wikipedia fictional) (en adjective)
  • Invented, as opposed to real.
    • Romeo and Juliet are fictional characters.
    The janitor's account of the crime turned out to be entirely fictional .

    Related terms

    * fictive * fictitious * fictitional

    squaresville

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A fictional or generic location occupied by unfashionable people.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 8, author=Charles Taylor, title=My Favorite Spy, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=But too often it reads like the second-rate movies that in the ’60s tried to cash in on the Bond success, the Matt Helm and Derek Flint pictures in which 007’s cool was reduced to swinging bachelor squaresville , a place where it was believed that all the right accouterments — the right stereo system, the right booze, the right sex — equaled style and wit. }}