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   fictitious

   /fɪkˈtɪʃəs/

   adjective

   • 1. not real or true; imaginary or fabricated: "reports of a deal were dismissed as fictitious by the Minister" Similar falsefakecounterfeitfabricatedshamuntruebogusspuriousassumedaffectedadoptedfeignedinventedmade upconcoctedimprovisedinformal:pretendphoneyinformal, dated:codOpposite genuine
   • 2. occurring in or invented for fiction. Similar fictionalimaginaryimaginedinventedmade upmake-believeunrealnon-existentmythicalstorybookapocryphalfabricatedconcocteddevisedthe product of someone's imaginationa figment of someone's imaginationOpposite factual

   Word Origin early 17th century: from Latin ficticius (from fingere ‘contrive, form’) + -ous (see also -itious2).

   Derivatives

   • 1. fictitiously adverb
   • 2. fictitiousness noun

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