Fictive

2 definitions found

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

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  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"