Fictitious
[fɪk'tɪʃəs]
Definition
(a.) Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Feigned, invented, imaginary, fanciful, unreal, not true.[2]. False, counterfeit, spurious, supposititious, not genuine.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Unreal, suppositious, spurious, imaginary
ANT:Real, true, historical, genuine, authentic, veritable
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Examples
- For there are, I believe, blunders in our political thinking which confuse fictitious activity with genuine achievement, and make it difficult for men to know where they should enlist. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And the conclusions drawn from them are sound, although the premises are fictitious. Plato. The Republic.
- If it is, then the taboo enforced by a Morals Police is, perhaps, as good a way as any of gaining a fictitious sense of activity. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In ways like these we shall go on inventing methods by which the fictitious party alignments can be dissolved. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Our own distresses, though they were occasioned by the fictitious reciprocity of commerce, encreased in due proportion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- This payment, therefore, was altogether fictitious. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I see in your papers many of their fictitious names, but nobody tells me the real. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- In this, I respectfully contend, I have in no respect exceeded the fair license due to the author of a fictitious composition. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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