Fictitious

Fic-ti′tious

,

Adj.

[L.

fictitius

. See

Fiction

.]

Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine;

as,

fictitious

fame

.

–

Fic-ti′tious-ly

,

adv.

–

Fic-ti′tious-ness

,

Noun.

Fictitious

FICTI'TIOUS

,

Adj.

[L. fictifius, from fingo, to feign.]

1.

Feigned; imaginary; not real.

The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones.

2.

Counterfeit; false; not genuine; as fictitious fame.

fictitious

See also: fictional

English

Adjective

fictitious ‎(comparative more fictitious, superlative most fictitious)

Not real; invented; contrived.
St. Mary Mead is a fictitious village from the books of Agatha Christie.

Synonyms

imaginary, invented, contrived, fictive

Translations

invented

Asturian: ficticiu
Bulgarian: измислен (bg) ‎(izmislen), въображаем (bg) ‎(vǎobražaem)
Catalan: fictici
Czech: smyšlený m
Dutch: fictief (nl)
Finnish: keksitty (fi)
French: fictif (fr) m, fictive (fr) f
Galician: ficticio
German: erfunden (de)
Hungarian: képzelt (hu)
Korean: 허구적 ‎(heogujeok)

Latin: fictus
Norwegian: fiktivt
Polish: fikcyjny (pl)
Portuguese: fictício (pt) m
Romanian: fictiv (ro), născocit
Russian: фикти́вный (ru) ‎(fiktívnyj), вы́мышленный (ru) ‎(výmyšlennyj), подде́льный (ru) ‎(poddélʹnyj)
Scottish Gaelic: breugach
Spanish: ficticio (es)
Swedish: fiktiv (sv)

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