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Define the word fictive

"Fictive" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"

Fictive \Fic"tive\, a. [Cf. F. fictif.]
   Feigned; counterfeit. "The fount of fictive tears."
   --Tennyson.
   [1913 Webster]

"fictive" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"

fictive
     adj 1: 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, fictitious,
             pretended, put on, sham]
     2: capable of imaginative creation; "fictive talent"