Fictitious

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or characterized by fiction; imaginary.
  • adj. Accepted or assumed for the sake of convention: a fictitious belief.
  • adj. Adopted or assumed in order to deceive: a fictitious name.
  • adj. Not genuinely believed or felt; sham: greeted me with a fictitious enthusiasm.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Not real; invented; contrived.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to or consisting of fiction; imaginatively produced or set forth; created by the imagination: as, a fictitious hero; fictitious literature.
  • Existing only in imagination; feigned; not true or real: as, a fictitious claim.
  • Counterfeit; false; not genuine.
  • Assumed as real; taking the place of something real; regarded as genuine.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. adopted in order to deceive
  • adj. formed or conceived by the imagination
  • Equivalent
    imitative    counterfeit    unreal   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    feigned    imaginary    fabulous    counterfeit    false    invented    contrived   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    imaginary    false    mythical    fictional    untrue    fabulous    spurious    erroneous    fraudulent    feign