fictitiousadj.
/fɪkˈtɪʃəs/, U.S. /fɪkˈtɪʃəs/ 1. † a. Artificial as opposed to natural. Obsolete.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > created or produced > contrived, artificial, or put together
positivec1385
artificial?c1425
craftlya1492
wroughta1500
preparated1569
made1580
elaborate1583
elaborate1592
elaborated1596
handmade1603
arted1606
factitiousa1624
made-up1677
fictitious1686
man-madea1718
got-up1793
gotten-up1796
canned1878
artefact1909
prefabricated1935
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > artificiality > [adjective]
artful1609
arted1637
artificialized1684
fictitious1686
plastic1963
plasticized1968
1686 R. Boyle Free Enq. Notion Nature 29 Chymists distinguish Vitriol into Natural and Fictitious, or made by Art.
b. Counterfeit, ‘imitation’, sham; not genuine.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [adjective]
counterfeitedc1385
counterfeitc1386
trothlessa1393
bastard1397
forged1484
apocryphate1486
adulterate?a1509
mockisha1513
sophisticate1531
adulterine1542
adulterous1547
mock1548
forbate1558
coined1582
firking1594
feigned1598
adulterated1610
apocryphal1612
spurious1615
usurpeda1616
impostured1619
mock-madea1625
suppository1641
affictitious1656
pasteboard1659
sophisticated1673
flam1678
Brummagem1679
sham1681
belieda1718
fictitious1739
Birmingham1785
pinchbeck1790
brummish1803
Brum1805
flash1812
spurious1830
bogus1839
imitative1839
dummy1846
doctored1853
postiche1854
pseudo1854
Brummagemish1855
snide1859
inauthentic1860
fake1879
bum1884
Brummie1886
tin1886
filled1887
duff1889
faked1890
shicec1890
margarine1891
dud1904
Potemkin village1904
mocked-up1919
phoney baloney1936
four-flushing1942
bodgie1956
moody1958
disauthentic1960
bodgied1988
bodgied-up1988
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adjective]
fainta1340
counterfeit1393
pretense1395
feinta1400
feigned1413
disguisyc1430
colourable1433
pretending1434
simulate1435
dissimuled1475
simulative1490
coloureda1500
dissimulate?a1500
simuled1526
colorate1528
dissembled1539
mock1548
devised1552
pretended?1553
artificial1564
supposed1566
counterfeited1569
supposing?1574
affecteda1586
pretensive1607
false1609
supposite1611
simulara1616
simulatory1618
simulated1622
put-ona1625
ironic1631
ironical1646
devisable1659
pretensional1659
pretenced1660
pretensory1663
vizarded1663
shammed?c1677
sham1681
faux1684
fictitious1739
ostensible1762
made-up1773
mala fide1808
assumed1813
semblative1814
fictioned1820
pretextual1837
pseudo1854
fictive1855
schlenter1881
faked1890
phoney1893
phantom1897
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 84 Able to distinguish betweene natural and fictitious precious Stones.
1726 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xviii. 356 Three vases heap'd with copious fires display O'er all the palace a fictitious day.
1739 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) VIII. 349 By shedding fictitious tears.
a1781 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip III (1783) i. 24 The fictitious attack on the fort.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth viii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 197 The fictitious old woman ushered in Catharine.
1840 T. B. Macaulay Ld. Clive 45 Two treaties were drawn up, one on white paper, the other on red, the former real, the latter fictitious.
2. Arbitrarily devised; not founded on rational grounds.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [adjective]
feignedc1374
wronga1375
forged14..
falsesome1533
compound1574
flim-flam1577
coined1582
minted1598
fabled1606
commentitial1611
inventive1612
commentitious1615
fictiousa1644
fictitious1660
manufactured1705
commentative1716
made-up1806
inventeda1831
concocted1840
accrete1846
fictive1855
mythical1870
society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [adjective] > unwarranted or unjustifiable > not founded on rational grounds
fictitious1660
unfounded1785
1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. i. ii. 76 Those things which by abuse..are passed into a fictitious and usurped authority.
1662 H. Stubbe Indian Nectar Pref. sig. A3v The..unpractised (and in many parts false, and fictitious) Doctrine.
1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. iii. 69 The Notion..of a moral Scheme of Government,..is not a fictitious, but a natural Notion.
1868 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. (1876) iii. 5 Nations, who have no money..have been constrained to invent a fictitious measure in order to express values.
3. Of a name: Feigned, assumed or invented, not real. Of a character, etc.: Feigned, deceptively assumed, simulated.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adjective] > feigned, fictitious > of name, character, etc.
feigned1559
fictitiousa1634
fictive1837
bodger1940
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adjective] > feigned, fictitious
falsea1175
feignedc1386
pretenced1425
pretended1461
counterfeit1530
personate1565
sham1683
personated1711
fictitiousa1781
pretence1853
a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 92 Philip Melancthon thinks, they [Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthazar] were not true, but fictitious Names.
1732 A. Pope Corr. Jan. (1956) III. 266 I may..make use of Real Names and not of Fictitious Ones.
a1781 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip III (1783) iv. 270 Men who act a fictitious part.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. ix. 152 Her haughtiness..was..a fictitious character, induced over that which was natural to her.
1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood iii. 12 A fictitious name must be bestowed upon the old Cathedral town.
4. Feigned to exist; existing only in imagination; imaginary, unreal.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > only in imagination or unreal
imaginary?1510
imaginative1517
rational1530
fantastical1531
fantasied1561
airy1565
fancied1568
legendary1570
dreamed1597
fabled1606
ideal1611
fictive1612
affectual1614
insubstantiala1616
imaginatorya1618
supposititious1620
fictitious1621
utopian1624
utopic1624
notional1629
affective1633
fictiousa1644
notionary1646
figmental1655
suppositious1655
fict1677
visionary1725
metaphysical1728
unrealized1767
fancy1801
nice-spun1801
subjective1815
aerial1829
transcendental1835
cardboardy1863
mythical1870
cardboard1879
fictionary1882
figmentary1887
alternative1939
alternate1944
fantasized1964
ideate1966
fanciful-
fantastic-
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. iv. i. ii. 722 St Christopher, and a company of fictitious Saints.
1635 W. Habington Castara (ed. 2) i. 54 Nobler comfort..then vice Ere found in her fictitious Paradise.
1701 N. Rowe Ambitious Step-mother iii. ii He laughs At the fictitious Justice of the Gods.
1838 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth (ed. 2) 1st Ser. 363 The facts in poetry, being allowedly fictitious, are not false.
1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi vi. 148 The Portuguese would, by fictitious claims, reap all the benefit.
1877 R. Giffen Stock Exchange Securities 64 Such fictitious securities..as the loans of Honduras.
5. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of fiction.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [adjective]
madea1387
feigned1623
fictious1641
fictitious1773
literary1842
fictional1843
1773 H. Chapone Lett. Improvem. Mind II. 144 Those fictitious stories, that so enchant the mind.
1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. xvi. 358 Marvels which would be intolerable in a fictitious narrative.
1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists iii. 107 Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life of the time.
6. Constituted or regarded as such by a (legal or conventional) fiction.
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society > law > jurisprudence > [adjective] > regarded as such by legal fiction
fictitious1837
juridic1892
juridical1900
1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 261 Being under a sense of transgression for a wholly fictitious offence.
1883 H. S. Maine Diss. Early Law & Custom iv. 100 The growing popularity of Adoption, as a method of obtaining a fictitious son.
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