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fictitious

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fic=ti=tious

CIDE DICTIONARY

fictitiousa. [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."

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fictitious, adj.
1 imaginary, unreal.
2 counterfeit; not genuine.
3 (of a name or character) assumed.
4 of or in novels.
5 regarded as what it is called by a legal or conventional fiction.

Derivative
fictitiously adv. fictitiousness n.
Etymology
L ficticius (as FICTILE)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

fictitious

Untruth

N untruth, falsehood, lie, story, thing that is not, fib, bounce, crammer, taradiddle, whopper, jhuth, forgery, fabrication, invention, misstatement, misrepresentation, perversion, falsification, gloss, suggestio falsi, exaggeration, invention, fabrication, fiction, fable, nursery tale, romance, absurd story, untrue story, false story, trumped up story, trumped up statement, thing devised by the enemy, canard, shave, sell, hum, traveler's tale, Canterbury tale, cock and bull story, fairy tale, fake, claptrap, press agent's yarn, puff, puffery (exaggeration), myth, moonshine, bosh, all my eye and Betty Martin, mare's nest, farce, irony, half truth, white lie, pious fraud, mental reservation, pretense, pretext, false plea, subterfuge, evasion, shift, shuffle, make-believe, sham, profession, empty words, Judas kiss, disguise, untrue, false, phony, trumped up, void of foundation, without- foundation, fictive, far from the truth, false as dicer's oaths, unfounded, ben trovato, invented, fabulous, fabricated, forged, fictitious, factitious, supposititious, surreptitious, elusory, illusory, ironical, soi-disant, se non e vero e ben trovato, where none is meant that meets the ear.


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