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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]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

98 Moby Thesaurus words for "fictitious":
   affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus,
   brummagem, chimerical, colorable, colored, concocted, cooked-up,
   counterfeit, counterfeited, created, deceptive, delusive, delusory,
   dishonest, distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered,
   ersatz, fabricated, fabulous, factitious, fake, faked, false,
   falsified, fancied, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, fashioned,
   feigned, fictional, fictive, figmental, forged, garbled, hatched,
   illegitimate, illusory, imaginary, imagined, imitation, improvised,
   invented, junky, legendary, made, made-up, make-believe, man-made,
   manufactured, misleading, mock, mythic, mythical, mythicized,
   mythified, mythological, nonactual, nonfactual, nonrealistic,
   perverted, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo, put-on, put-up,
   quasi, queer, romantic, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated,
   so-called, soi-disant, spurious, supposititious, synthetic, tin,
   tinsel, titivated, trumped-up, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine,
   unnatural, unreal, untrue, warped