Define the word fictitious"Fictitious" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Fictitious \Fic*ti"tious\, a. [L. fictitius. See Fiction.]
Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false;
not genuine; as, fictitious fame.
[1913 Webster]
The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones.
--Pope.
-- Fic*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Fic*ti"tious*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
"fictitious" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
fictitious
adj 1: 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"
[syn: fabricated, fancied, fictional, invented,
made-up]
2: 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" [syn: assumed, false, fictive, pretended,
put on, sham]
"fictitious" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
98 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
|
