fictitious

pronunciation

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Adjective:

formed or conceived by the imagination
adopted in order to deceive

Word Origin

fictitious (adj.): 1610s, "artificial, counterfeit;" 1620s, "existing only in imagination," from Medieval Latin fictitius, a misspelling of Latin ficticius "artificial, counterfeit," from fictus "feigned, fictitious, false," past participle of fingere "to shape, form, devise, feign" (see fiction). Related: Fictitiously; fictitiousness.

Synonym

adj.

imaginary fictive make-believe made-up figmentary trumped-up unreal concocted fabricated mythical untrue fanciful fictional manufactured fantastic invented feigned

adj.

simulated put-on spurious phony affected false sham insincere pseudo counterfeit bogus pretended assumed artificial synthetic supposititious feigned faked unauthentic fake

Example

1. To the minimalists , david and solomon were simply fictitious characters .

2. But their work is still bound to have impacts on the ecosystem of fictitious monsters .

3. Unlikely and fantastic legends grew up around a great many figures , both real and fictitious .

4. In a classic psychological experiment , people were shown a series of fictitious names of food additives , all with 12 letters .

5. In the first study 69 participants were asked to provide feedback to a fictitious student called ' eric ' on his cover letter for a job application .

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