Meaning of FICTITIOUS
| Pronunciation: | | fik'tishus
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- [adj] adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"
- [adj] formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"; "used fictitious names"; "a made-up story"
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| | Synonyms: | | assumed, counterfeit, fabricated, false, fancied, fictional, fictive, imitative, invented, made-up, pretended, put on, sham, unreal |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fic*ti"tious\, a. [L. fictitius. See {Fiction}.]
Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false;
not genuine; as, fictitious fame.
The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones.
--Pope.
-- {Fic*ti"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Fic*ti"tious*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, chimerical, colorable, colored, concocted, cooked-up, counterfeit, counterfeited, created, deceptive, delusive, delusory, dishonest, distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, ersatz, fabricated, fabulous, factitious, fake, faked, false, falsified, fancied, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, fashioned, feigned, fictional, fictive, figmental, forged, garbled, hatched, illegitimate, illusory, imaginary, imagined, imitation, improvised, invented, junky, legendary, made, made-up, make-believe, man-made, manufactured, misleading, mock, mythic, mythical, mythicized, mythified, mythological, nonactual, nonfactual, nonrealistic, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo, put-on, put-up, quasi, queer, romantic, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, trumped-up, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, untrue, warped |
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