Definitions for fictitious
fɪkˈtɪʃ əsfic·ti·tious

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious(adj)

   formed or conceived by the imagination

   "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"

2. assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham(adj)

   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"

Wiktionary(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. fictitious(Adjective)

   Not real; invented; contrived.

   St. Mary Mead is a fictitious village from the books of Agatha Christie.

Webster Dictionary(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Fictitious(adj)

   feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame

   Etymology: [L. fictitius. See Fiction.]

How to pronounce fictitious?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of fictitious in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of fictitious in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of fictitious in a Sentence

1. Long Liu:

   What the company is promising is a fictitious tale. This is not like a real investment because it will never be realized or returned.

2. Al Baker:

   It took two years to compile all the data that they fictitiously created to confront competition - we also need that much time to respond to those fictitious allegations against the Gulf carriers.

3. Anuj Somany:

   Fictitious friends called frienemies are more poisonous to a person than the ferocious or venomous animals around him or her.

4. Mariano Rajoy:

   This is a fictitious, unreal candidature.

5. George Bernard Shaw:

   What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

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