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fictitious character

fictitious character

1 4.0
A person who is not real and appears in a story, book, or film
  • noun
  • /fɪkˈtɪʃəs ˈkɛrɪktər/
translation icon : personaje ficticio
  • Many readers develop strong attachments to fictitious characters in their favorite novels.

So the two of you guys created this sort of fictitious character playing for fictitious Premier League football club.

Examples

  • So the two of you guys created this sort of fictitious character playing for fictitious Premier League football club.

  • During the first interview, participants had to make a moral decision for a fictitious character in each dilemma, while during the second interview they were placed as the central character in each dilemma.

    Academic text (2001)
  • The plot centers around the city and is based on a fictitious character.

    Blog text (16)
  • I mean, "Linda Lovelace" was a fictitious character.

  • Legal Disclaimer: I am purely a fictitious character.

    Blog text (17)
  • The novel, which tells the story of the Age of Reform through the lives of fictitious characters embodying different common life strategies and attitudes, was published four years after Borsos painted The Morning After the Masquerade.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Specifically, female adolescents tend to worship more male media stars than male adolescents do, while male adolescents worship more male politicians and more fictitious characters than female adolescents do.

    Academic text (2007)
  • According to the results, adolescents tend to worship idols who are accessible in their daily lives (e.g., noncelebrities) or through mass media (e.g., media stars and fictitious characters).

    Academic text (2007)
  • In the film, the hero is a fictitious character who embarks on an exciting journey to save the kingdom.

  • The author created a complex fictitious character whose struggles resonate with real-life issues.

Synonyms

character
vsfictitious character
3.2

A person in a story, play, or film

is narrower, meaning an invented imaginary person in written or performed stories
fictional character
vsfictitious character
15 2.8

A person created by an author for a story like a book or film

means the same but uses a different adjective in the phrase

How Real

historic
501 3.9
fictitious character
1 4.0
imaginary being
  • Literature
7.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

fictitious + character

The phrase is fully compositional: 'fictitious' means not real or invented and 'character' refers to a person in a story, so together they straightforwardly denote an imaginary person. This adjective+noun pattern is common cross-linguistically and requires no idiomatic knowledge, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.

Etymology

Fictitious character: The noun fictitious character paints a simple picture: fictitious means 'made up' and character means a person in a story, so imagine an author shaping a person out of words. That's why fictitious character means 'an imaginary person in a story'.