Definition of Fictitious

1. Adjective. Formed or conceived by the imagination. "A fictional character"

Exact synonyms: Fabricated, Fancied, Fictional
Similar to: Unreal
Derivative terms: Fiction, Fiction

2. Adjective. Adopted in order to deceive. "Sham modesty"
Exact synonyms: Assumed, False, Fictive, Pretended, Put On, Sham
Similar to: Counterfeit, Imitative
Derivative terms: Falseness, Fiction, Sham, Sham

Definition of Fictitious

1. a. Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame.

Definition of Fictitious

1. Adjective. Not real; invented; contrived. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fictitious

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fictitious

fictionises
fictionising
fictionist
fictionists
fictionization
fictionizations
fictionize
fictionized
fictionizes
fictionizing
fictionmaking
fictions
fictious
fictiously
fictitional
fictitious (current term)
fictitious character
fictitious feeding
fictitiously
fictitiousness
fictive
fictive kin
fictively
fictiveness
fictivenesses
fictography
fictomercial
fictomercials
fictor
fictors

Literary usage of Fictitious

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"A drama (we adopt Dr. Johnson's definition, with some little extension) is a poem or fictitious composition in dialogue, in which the action is not related, ..."

2. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1921)
"ALTHOUGH Isaiah (TO) brings a just accusation of stupidity against the worshippers of fictitious deities, for not having learned, from the foundations of ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"He was warmly encouraged by Bishop Compton, to whom he presented a Catechism in " Formosan ", a purely fictitious language. Afterwards he fell into poverty ..."

4. A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume, Thomas Hill Green (1874)
"... but 'tis only because one, two, three, four, &c., are existent A unit^j consisting of a number of fractions, is merely a fictitious denomination, ..."

5. Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure by William Mack, Howard Pervear Nash (1903)
"The name assumed as a fictitious payee may be that of an actual person used as euch without interest on his part or intention on the maker's part to make ..."

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