Definitions for fictitious
fɪkˈtɪʃ əsfic·ti·tious

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitiousadjective

   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, shamadjective

   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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. fictitiousadjective

   Not real; invented; contrived.

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

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FICTITIOUSadjective

   Etymology: fictitius, Latin.

   1. Counterfeit; false; not genuine.

   Draw him strictly so,
   That all who view the piece may know
   He needs no trappings of fictitious fame. Dryden.

   2. Feigned; imaginary.

   The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones; and Belinda resembles you in nothing but in beauty. Alexander Pope.

   3. Not real; not true.

   John Milton, sensible of this defect in the subject of his poem, brought into it two characters of a shadowy and fictitious nature, in the persons of sin and death, by which means he has interwoven in his fable a very beautiful allegory. Joseph Addison, Spect.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fictitious

   Fictitious refers to something that is invented or imagined, and not real or true. It may apply to stories, characters, data, or objects that are fabricated, false or deceptive.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. Fictitiousadjective

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

2. Etymology: [L. fictitius. See Fiction.]

How to pronounce fictitious?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

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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. Matthias Kiener:

   External auditors, unlike [counter-fraud] officers, are not necessarily looking for evidence of fictitious receipts or inappropriate spending in the field, sometimes the due diligence is not done. That might be because many charities are founded on the principle of trust. An NGO might be reluctant to ask tough questions of some of those it employs.

2. Air Force:

   On June 5, during a passport fraud investigation, the US Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service interviewed an individual claiming to be Barry O'Beirne. After being confronted with inconsistencies about his identity, the individual admitted his true name was William Howard Hughes Jr., and that he deserted from the US Air Force in 1983, capt. Hughes claimed that in 1983 he was depressed about being in the Air Force so he left, created the fictitious identity of O'Beirne and has been living in California ever since.

3. 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.

4. Werner Patzelt:

   They claim that Germany is still an occupied country under US control, or a business enterprise registered in Frankfurt, from such fictitious ‘facts’ they derive both a ‘right’ not to pay taxes and penalties, or to establish ‘provisional political authorities.’.

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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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=fictitious
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Fictitious
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=fictitious
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fictitious