Search Result for "fictitious": 
Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. formed or conceived by the imagination;
- Example: "a fabricated excuse for his absence"
- Example: "a fancied wrong"
- Example: "a fictional character"
[syn: fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious]

2. 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]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fictitious \Fic*ti"tious\, a. [L. fictitius. See Fiction.]
   Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false;
   not genuine; as, fictitious fame.
   [1913 Webster]

         The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones.
                                                  --Pope.
   -- Fic*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Fic*ti"tious*ness, n.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

fictitious
    adj 1: formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated
           excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional
           character" [syn: fabricated, fancied, fictional,
           fictitious]
    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" [syn: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive,
       pretended, put on, sham]