Definitions for: Fictitious


[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"
[adj] 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"



Webster (1913) Definition: Fic*ti"tious, a. [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, adv. -- Fic*ti"tious*ness, n.

Synonyms: assumed, counterfeit, fabricated, false, fancied, fictional, fictive, imitative, invented, made-up, pretended, put on, sham, unreal

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