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    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.
    --

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    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]

    WordNet (r) 2.0


    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

    Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0




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