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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fictitious \Fic*ti"tious\, adjective [L. fictitius. See {Fiction}.] Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame.
The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones. --Pope. -- {Fic*ti"tious*ly}, adverb -- {Fic*ti"tious*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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" [syn: {fabricated}, {fancied}, {fictional}, {invented}, {made-up}]
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}, {fictive}, {pretended}, {put on}, {sham}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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