fictitious
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5.1
- adjective
- /fɪkˈtɪʃəs/
- Students who wrote to a fictitious audience showed a decrease in writing output during the study.
- a fictitious name
- a fictitious item
- a fictitious psychologist
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Watch on YouTubeOne could argue it was a fictitious made-up war by the right.
- One could argue it was a fictitious made-up war by the right.
- This is this is, by the way, it's a fictitious character.
- Like wouldn't I need to have like Adba or a fictitious business name?
- He was busted three times for filing tax returns, fictitious tax returns.
- I actually leveraged fear of losing to this fictitious person of them being right.
- but also becoming free of a very limited and ultimately fictitious sense of identity,
- So the two of you guys created this sort of fictitious character playing for fictitious Premier League football club.
- So I just use the date of birthright that I just chose for this fictitious person.
- This process of sort of fictitious ethnic invention is called ethnogenesis.
- That's what the inflation did is it blew up this fictitious balloon.
- Maybe it's a more convenient thing to do to kind of map that indirectly onto a fictitious telling of what happened to you.
- The sense that one is here with us, once we have known them as we encounter them, is as real and fictitious as daily life.
Examples
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I have introduced A fictitious entity, the center of mass.
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The names and schools in the report are fictitious; they were created to illustrate a point.
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Then she goes to visit a friend who is teaching at this fictitious college.
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The names and schools included in the vignettes are fictitious; however, each example is based on actual practice.
Academic text (2012) -
That sketch I showed you, it's a fictitious character, it doesn't exist.
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I mean, "Linda Lovelace" was a fictitious character.
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Subjects computed and tabulated the work hours of employees of a fictitious company.
Academic text (1994) -
Although some of the details were fictitious, the overall story conveyed a true message.
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The novel features a fictitious hero who embarks on a journey filled with imagination.
Synonyms
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2.8
Not real and made to trick people
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3.4
Made up in stories or in your mind, not real
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8.0
Very strange and like something made up in dreams or stories
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7.4
Used to hide someone's real name, identity or feelings
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6.0
Made up and not true, often to trick people
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4.2
Not real, like something from a dream
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7.0
Seeming to be real but not really there
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4.7
Made to seem real to trick people
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6.8
Not real and made to trick people
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8.5
Not real and made up for a story or to hide the truth
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5.5
Ideas or images that exist only in the mind and are not real
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7.6
Seems real but is actually false
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5.4
Not real because it is only in someone's mind
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Etymology
Fictitious comes from the same root as fiction and the Latin verb fingere, which means 'to make' or 'to shape'. So something fictitious is literally 'made up' or imagined rather than real.