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ADJECTIVE (2)

1. adopted in order to deceive;
- Example: "an assumed name"
- Example: "an assumed cheerfulness"
- Example: "a fictitious address"
- Example: "fictive sympathy"
- Example: "a pretended interest"
- Example: "a put-on childish voice"
- Example: "sham modesty"
[syn: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham]

2. capable of imaginative creation;
- Example: "fictive talent"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fictive \Fic"tive\, a. [Cf. F. fictif.]
   Feigned; counterfeit. "The fount of fictive tears."
   --Tennyson.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

fictive
    adj 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" [syn: assumed, false,
           fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham]
    2: capable of imaginative creation; "fictive talent"