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单词 fictitious
释义

fictitious

/fɪkˈtɪʃəs /
adjective
1Not real or true; imaginary or fabricated: reports of a deal were dismissed as fictitious by the Minister...
  • This must be a real, not a fictitious, intention, so it hardly arises in the case of a fraudster.
  • Ms Moore, the department and Downing Street issued blanket denials, claiming the e-mail was fabricated and fictitious.
  • Better to discover how science is in fact developed and learned than to fabricate a fictitious structure to a similar effect.

Synonyms

false, fake, counterfeit, fabricated, sham;
untrue, bogus, spurious, assumed, affected, adopted, feigned, invented, made up, concocted, improvised
informal pretend, phoney
British informal, dated cod
2Occurring in or invented for fiction.The Curmudgeon is a satirical column based on fictitious characters in a mythical village....
  • It is about a West Coast Rugby team full of larger than life fictitious characters.
  • For the first time, the Indian Postal Services Department has issued a stamp on a fictitious character.

Synonyms

fictional, imaginary, imagined, invented, made up, make-believe, unreal, non-existent, mythical, storybook, apocryphal;
fabricated, concocted, devised;
the product of someone's imagination, a figment of someone's imagination

Derivatives

fictitiously

/fɪkˈtɪʃəsli / adverb ...
  • And there's even evidence that some of them have gotten a degree and then gone to their employer and had their employer pay them back for tuition that they've spent, again, fictitiously.
  • Petrov, who was the commander of a flight in which 500 large packages of cigarettes were fictitiously exported to Greece, was charged with smuggling and held in custody.
  • Now well into its second season, Spooks has managed to attract the kind of attention that is usually reserved for the real life events that it fictitiously depicts.

fictitiousness

/fɪkˈtɪʃəsnəs / noun ...
  • ‘There is no such thing as a work of pure factuality,’ writes Janet Malcolm, ‘any more than there is one of pure fictitiousness.’
  • As Hackett feels obliged to point out to the Endons, ‘I am scarcely the outer world’ thus ironically disputing a qualitative difference between different levels of fictitiousness within a work of fiction.
  • While Marvell, Browning, Eliot, etc. had based the genre of lyric around exploring the self-as-structure (its fictitiousness, its layeredness), poets were often being paid well to take the self seriously as an essential whole.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin ficticius (from fingere 'contrive, form') + -ous (see also -itious2).

Rhymes

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