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单词 fictitious
释义
fictitiousfic‧ti‧tious /fɪkˈtɪʃəs/ ●○○ adjective Word Origin
WORD ORIGINfictitious
Origin:
1600-1700 Latin ficticius ‘artificial’, from fictus; FICTION
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • The setting is a fictitious island in the Chesapeake River.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But all these superstitions are really altogether on a fictitious basis.
  • Does such a fictitious person have a reputation which it can protect by the law of defamation?
  • For the purposes of this chapter I have given the four schools fictitious names.
  • The show, which depicts eight officers patrolling the fictitious town of El Camino, debuted March 3.
  • Yet the popular traditions from which such stories presumably came were not always totally fictitious, and can not be simply ignored.
  • Your little friendship lamp is now a lighthouse in the fictitious Midwestern city of Springfield.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=not existing in real life)· People sometimes forget that television characters are fictional.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· For the purposes of this chapter I have given the four schools fictitious names.· Perhaps the assassin's fictitious name was Tailler's final joke.· Easton is the fictitious name we have given to the area of Belfast in which our research was located.
Word family
WORD FAMILYadjectivefictionalfictitiousnon-fictionnounfictionnon-fictionverbfictionalize
not true, or not real SYN  imaginary:  a fictitious address fictitious characters
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