Fictitious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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