Fictive

Definitions: Fictive

Fictive

Adjective

1. 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".

2. Capable of imaginative creation; "fictive talent".

Date "fictive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Etymology: Fictive \Fic"tive\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression fictif.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Fictive

Synonyms: assumed (adj), false (adj), fictitious (adj), pretended (adj), put on (adj), sham (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
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).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Fictive

Specialty definitions using "fictive": take over tax. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	A Fictive People: Antebellum Economic Development and the American Reading Public (reference) Fictive Certainties (reference) Form As Compensation for Life: Fictive Patterns in Virginia Woolf's Novels (Studies in English and American Literature, Linguistics, and Culture) (reference) Journal of the Fictive Life (reference) Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Fictive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fictive" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	14	93,893

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "fictive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		imagjinar (fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fictional, fictitious, imaginary, imaginative, unreal, visional, visionary), i rremë (affected, delusive, delusory, fallible, false, fictitious, hollow, illusive, lying, mendacious, meretricious, mock, out of whole cloth, pasteboard, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, plastic, pseudo, simulated, spoof, spurious, supposititious, untruthful). (various references)

Arabic		‏تخيلي (imaginary), ‏زائف (adulterate, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, dummy, fake, false, fictitious, floating, hypocritical, imitation, imitative, mock, postiche, pretended, pseudo, queer, sham, shoddy, simulate, spurious, unreal), ‏خيالي (aerial, chimerical, conceptual, fancied, fanciful, fancy, fantast, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, figment, ideal, ideational, imaginary, imaginative, impracticable, mythical, notional, quixotic, romantic, unreal, utopian, visionary). (various references)

Bulgarian		фиктивен (dummy, feigned, nominal, paper, phoney), белетристичен (fictional). (various references)

Chinese		虚构 (Chimeric, Chimerical, fictional, imaginary). (various references)

Czech		fiktivní (fictitious). (various references)

Dutch		fictief flapperscharnier (equivalent flapping hinge, fictive flapping hinge). (various references)

French		fictif (fictile, fictional, fictitious). (various references)

German		erdichteten. (various references)

Greek		εικονική άρθρωση κώπησης (equivalent flapping hinge, fictive flapping hinge). (various references)

Hebrew		פיקטיבי, ב�"וי (fabricated, false, fictitious, invented, made up). (various references)

Hungarian		kitalált (fabricated, fabulous, feigned, fictional, fictitious, imaginary, invented, made). (various references)

Italian		fittizio (dummy, factitious, fictitious), immaginario (fanciful, fictitious, imaginary, notional, pretentious, visionary). (various references)

Korean		가공 (processing). (various references)

Norwegian		fiktiv (fictitious). (various references)

Pig Latin		ictivefay

Portuguese		articulação fictícia de batimento (equivalent flapping hinge, fictive flapping hinge). (various references)

Romanian		fictiv (assumed, bogus, dummy, fictional, fictitious, fictitiously, sham, unreal). (various references)

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

Serbo-Croatian		fiktivan (fictitious). (various references)

Thai		ซึ่งเป็นจินตนาการ. (various references)

Turkish		uydurma (adjustment, apocryphal, arranging, cardboard box, coinage, colorable, concoction, fabled, fabrication, fabulous, fake, false, falsification, fib, fiction, fictitious, 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), kurgusal (speculative), hayali (aerial, airy, cardboard box, chimerical, delusive, Faerie, faery, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fictional, fictitious, illusive, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, insubstantial, phantasmal, spectral, unreal, visionary). (various references)

Vietnamese		tưởng tượng (aerial, fictional, fictitious, imaginary, imaginative, mythical, mythologic, mythological, visionary), hư cấu (fictional, fictitious). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "fictive": fictively, fictiveness, fictivenesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Fictive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: frictive. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "fictive" (pronounced 'Fic"tive'): Abjunctive, Absorptive, Abstractive, Accretive, Active, Adductive, Adscriptive, Affective, Afflictive, Appetitive, Arbustive, Architective, Assumptive, Astrictive, Astructive, Attentive, Benedictive, Calefactive, Chylifactive, Circumscriptive, Circumspective, Coactive, Collative, Completive, Compunctive, Conceptive, Concretive, Conglutinative, Conjunctive, Contortive, Convective, Costive, Creative, Deceptive, Decretive, Defunctive, Depletive, Descriptive, Diffractive, Discerptive, Discretive, Distinctive, Distractive, Eductive, Elative, Electro-motive, Emotive, Ententive, Excalfactive, Excerptive. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-f-i-i-t-v"
	-2 letters: civet, civie, evict.
	-3 letters: cite, etic, fice, five, vice.
	-4 letters: eft, fet, fie, fit, ice, tic, tie, vet, vie.
	-5 letters: ef, et, if, it, ti.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-f-i-i-t-v"
	+2 letters: factitive, fictively, fricative, infective.
	+3 letters: afflictive, fricatives, inflective, inflictive.
	+4 letters: affectivity, affricative, conflictive, effectivity, factitively, fictiveness, ineffective, infectivity.
	+5 letters: afflictively, affricatives, facilitative, imperfective, noninfective, perfectivity, reflectivity, refractivity, verification, vociferating, vociferation.
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