About The Word Fictitious
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Fictitious
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What's The Definition Of Fictitious?
[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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Fictitious: assumed | counterfeit | fabricated | false | fancied | fictional | fictive | imitative | invented | made-up | pretended | put on | sham | unreal Related Terms | Find terms related to Fictitious: 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 See Also | Fictitious In Webster's Dictionary \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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