Fictitious

Definitions: Fictitious

Fictitious

Adjective

1. Formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"; "used fictitious names"; "a made-up story".

2. Adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "fictitious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Aerospace

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Synonyms: Fictitious

Untruth

Adjective: untrue, false, phony, trumped up; void of foundation, without-foundation; fictive, far from the truth, false as dicer's oaths; unfounded, ben trovato, invented, fabulous, fabricated, forged; fictitious, factitious, supposititious, surreptitious; elusory, illusory; ironical; soi-disant; (misnamed).

Crosswords: Fictitious

Books

• Double or Nothing: A Real Fictitious Discourse (reference)

• Forgery and Fictitious Checks (reference)

• Gifted Kids Have Feelings Too: And Other Not So Fictitious Stories for and About Teenagers (reference)

• Management by Vice : A Humorous Satire on R&D Life in a Fictitious Company (reference)

• Pine Needle Natl Park Visitor Guide: America's Favorite Fictitious Natl Park (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Fictitious [+] (reference)

• Fictitious Sports (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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U-2 Spy Plane With Fictitious NASA Markings.Credit: NASA.

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That the prioress had told him to bring his brother the next evening, after the fictitious burial at the cemetery.

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Civil Liberties

Iran

One example cited is the periodic publication of the anti-Semitic and fictitious Protocols of the Elders of Zion, both by the Government and by periodicals associated with hard-line elements of the Government. (references)

Economic History

Korea

The Kim Young-sam administration (1993-1998) resolved to break with this tradition and began a momentous reform process by requiring all bank accounts to carry "real names" by the end of 1993. This basic change had a profound impact in an economy where illegal wealth traditionally was hidden through the use of multiple bank accounts established under fictitious names. (references)

Human Rights

Tanzania

There were reports that police at times arrest innocent persons, accuse them of fictitious crimes, and withdraw or reduce the charges upon payment of bribes. (references)

Minorities

Kuwait

Under the law, bidoon who admit to another nationality (or who purchase a passport from a country to which they have no true connection) do not automatically forfeit their claim to citizenship based on Kuwaiti residency prior to 1965. However, the law does not permit dual nationality; thus, if former bidoon eventually are naturalized, they must renounce their original or fictitious nationality. (references)

Worker Rights

India

The ICFTU reports that overtime is compulsory in the EPZ's, that workers often are employed on temporary contracts with fictitious contractors rather than directly by the company, and that workers fear that complaints about substandard working conditions would result in their being fired. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "fictitious": fictitious assets ♦ fictitious character ♦ fictitious liabilities ♦ fictitious marriage ♦ fictitious name ♦ Fictitious person ♦ fictitious profit. Additional references.

Ending with "fictitious": probably-fictitious, semi-fictitious.

Albanian

fiktiv (imaginary, unreal), imagjinar (fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fictional, fictive, imaginary, imaginative, unreal, visional, visionary), i rremë (affected, delusive, delusory, fallible, false, fictive, hollow, illusive, lying, mendacious, meretricious, mock, out of whole cloth, pasteboard, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, plastic, pseudo, simulated, spoof, spurious, supposititious, untruthful). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كاذب (bogus, deceptive, delusive, dummy, fake, false, flash, lying, phony, pseudo, sham, simulate, snide, spurious, unreal, untrue, untruthful), ‏تصوري (ideological, imaginary), ‏زائف (adulterate, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, dummy, fake, false, fictive, floating, hypocritical, imitation, imitative, mock, postiche, pretended, pseudo, queer, sham, shoddy, simulate, spurious, unreal), ‏خيالي (aerial, chimerical, conceptual, fancied, fanciful, fancy, fantast, fantastic, fictional, fictive, figment, ideal, ideational, imaginary, imaginative, impracticable, mythical, notional, quixotic, romantic, unreal, utopian, visionary), ‏خرافي (fabled, fabulous, legendary, mythical, mythological, superstitious). (various references)

Bulgarian 

фалшив (bastard, bogus, brummagem, counterfeit, dummy, factitious, fake, false, hollow, imitative, insincere, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, queer, sharp, snide, spurious, supposititious, tinsel), привиден (colorable, colourable, factitious, formal, left handed, ostensible, ostentatious, outward, phantom, put on, seeming, superficial, token), измислен (fabled, fabulous, fancy, fictional, made up, mythical, phantasmagoric, phoney, phony, spoof). (various references)

Chinese 

虚拟, 虛�"� (theoretical, virtual). (various references)

Czech

fiktivní (fictive), smyšlený (fanciful, fictional). (various references)

Danish

fiktive tons (fictitious freight tons), fiktive rettelser (fictitious corrections), fiktive observationer (fictitious observations), fiktive aktiver (fictional assets, fictitious assets), fiktiv værdi (fictitious value), fiktiv modul (fictitious modulus), fiktiv løn (fictitious salary), falsk haelfod (fictitious talipes calcaneus), tjenesteveksel (accommodation bill, cerf volant, fictitious bill, finance bill, financial bill, financial note, financial paper, fraudulent note, kite, wind bill, windmill), juridisk person (artificial person, fictitious person, legal body, legal person), Besselsk år (Besselian fictitious year). (various references)

Dutch

verdicht (fictional), fictief (fictional), denkbeeldig (fictional). (various references)

Esperanto

fikcia (fictional). (various references)

Faeroese

hugsaður (fictional), óveruligur (fictional). (various references)

Finnish

tekaistu (trumped up), kuviteltu (fancied, imaginary). (various references)

French

fictif (fictile, fictional, fictive). (various references)

German

fiktiv (notional). (various references)

Greek 

πλασματικόσ (imaginary, plasmatic), πλαστόσ (counterfeit, false, falsified, forged, mock, sham, shoddy, spurious, supposititious), φανταστικόσ (fancied, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, imaginary, notional, unreal, vaporous, visionary). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעוש�" (affected, artificial, compulsory, forced), ערמתי, כוזב (false, illusory, mimetic, untrue), �"מיו� י (airy fairy, fabulous, fairy, fancied, fanciful, fantasy, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, phantom, romantic, unreal, utopian, visionary), ב�"יו� י (fictional), ב�"וי (fabricated, false, fictive, invented, made up). (various references)

Hungarian

kitalált (fabricated, fabulous, feigned, fictional, fictive, imaginary, invented, made), koholt (apocryphal, fictional, phoney), költött (fictional, spent), képzelt (fancied, fantastic, fictional, imaginary, mythical), alaptalan (baseless, causeless, gratuitous, groundless, ill founded, irrational, it's in the air, unfounded, ungrounded). (various references)

Indonesian

fiktif. (various references)

Italian

fittizio (dummy, factitious, fictive). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

烏有先�"� (fictitious person), 空相� � (fictitious transaction, speculation), 空� � (fictitious stock), 空取り引き (fictitious or paper transaction), 空出張 (fictitious business trip). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くうそうば (fictitious transaction, speculation), くうかぶ (fictitious stock), くうとりひき (fictitious or paper transaction), うゆうせ�"せい (fictitious person), からしゅっちょう (fictitious business trip), からかぶ (fictitious stock), からとりひき (fictitious or paper transaction). (various references)

Korean 

가상 (Aggressor, imaginary, Simulating). (various references)

Manx

neufirrinagh (affected, insincere, perfidious, unfaithful), far-skeealagh (fabled, fabulous), breagagh (bogus, delusive, extravagant, false, illusive, imitation, lying, pinchbeck, spurious). (various references)

Norwegian

fiktiv (fictive), oppdiktet. (various references)

Pig Latin

ictitiousfay

Portuguese

fictício (assumed, bogus, dummy, fairy, fictitious name, imitation jewelry, make believe, unreal), imaginário (aerial, airy, etherization, fancy, fantastic, ideal, imaginary, imagination, notional, of fantasy, overground, unreal). (various references)

Romanian

fictiv (assumed, bogus, dummy, fictional, fictitiously, fictive, sham, unreal), nãscocit (fabled, feigned, made), închipuit (conceited, false, fancied, imaginary, notional, overweening, unreal, visional). (various references)

Russian 

вымышленный (assumed, fictional, fictive, romantic), воображаемый (fancied, fictive, imaginable, imaginary, make believe, notional, visional). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

fiktivan (fictive), izmišljen (fanciful, fictional, made up). (various references)

Spanish

ficticio (assumed, bogus, dummy, fictional, made up, sham, untrue). (various references)

Swedish

oäkta (apocryphal, bastard, counterfeit, false, flash, illegitimate, imitation, mock, pinchbeck, sham, shoddy, spurious). (various references)

Thai

ไม่จริง. (various references)

Turkish

uyduruk (fake, invented, made up, trumped-up), uydurma (adjustment, apocryphal, arranging, cardboard box, coinage, colorable, concoction, fabled, fabrication, fabulous, fake, false, falsification, fib, fiction, fictive, figment, fitting, flam, gold brick, improvisation, improvised, invention, made up, making up, mendacious, out of whole cloth, quack, tosh, trumped-up, tuning, untrue, untruth, untruthful), itibari (fiduciary, nominal, notional, titular, token), imgesel (fictional, imaginary, imaginative), hayali (aerial, airy, cardboard box, chimerical, delusive, Faerie, faery, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fictional, fictive, illusive, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, insubstantial, phantasmal, spectral, unreal, visionary). (various references)

Ukranian 

уявний (fairy, fancied, imaginary, notional, putative, virtual, visionary), фіктивний (paper, sham), вигаданий (airy, assumed, fabled, feigned, fictional, make believe, mythic, mythical). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tưởng tượng (aerial, fictional, fictive, imaginary, imaginative, mythical, mythologic, mythological, visionary), không có thực giả, hư cấu (fictional, fictive). (various references)

Welsh

ffug (affectation, bogus, false, fiction, sham). (various references)

falsa, falsae, falsam, falsas, false, falsi, falsis, falso, falsos, falsum, falsus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "fictitious": fictitiously, fictitiousness, fictitiousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Fictitious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: facetitious, facittious, factitous, fastitious, fectitious, ficeitious, ficitious, ficticious, fictictious, fictitius, fictitous. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: ouistiti.

-3 letters: outfits.

-4 letters: coitus, fistic, fustic, otitic, otitis, outfit, outsit.

-5 letters: coifs, cuifs, cutis, ficus, focus, foist, ictus, scout, stoic, stout, titis, tofts, tofus, toits, touts, tufts.

+2 letters: fictitiously.

+3 letters: justification.

+4 letters: fictitiousness, justifications, stultification.

+5 letters: beautifications, fructifications, functionalistic, functionalities, quantifications, stultifications.

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