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US
/fɪkˈtɪʃəs/
]
[ UK /fɪktˈɪʃəs/ ]
[ UK /fɪktˈɪʃəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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formed or conceived by the imagination
a fictional character
a fancied wrong
a fabricated excuse for his absence -
adopted in order to deceive
an assumed name
a put-on childish voice
an assumed cheerfulness
a fictitious address
fictive sympathy
sham modesty
a pretended interest
How To Use fictitious In A Sentence
- Cereal song earth: Fictitious tellurion software, be together satellitic picture, map, encyclopedia and flight simulator conformity, decorate in an earth on three-dimensional model.
- Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians. Che Guevara
- Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians. Che Guevara
- The audiences before whom _The Revenge_ was produced evidently showed themselves ill-affected towards such a medley of purely fictitious creations, and of historical personages and incidents, treated in the most arbitrary fashion. Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois
- To be even more blunt: If the entire haruspical tradition is from the Near East and related closely with Babylonian or Hittite religion which share the same practices, then why aren't Etruscologists doing the sensible thing and putting away their childish toys namely Capella's fictitious poetry and picking up a book on Babylonian or Hittite divination practices in order to understand Etruscan religion more competently? Finding structure in the Piacenza Liver despite academic claptrap - Part 4
- For the first time, the Indian Postal Services Department has issued a stamp on a fictitious character.
- We do not use pretentious, fictitious terms for my establishment's beverages.
- Saying ‘statistically, no’ is supposed to hint that the statistics may well be a fictitious construct, some idle confection of brainiacs and number-crunchers with little real referent.
- And tonight, as film-maker Michael Cockerell explores their world in tonight's edition of Great Offices of State on BBC4, Mario Dunn, the former special adviser to Alan Johnson, says a fair few special advisers – but not him – modelled themselves on the fictitious, foul-mouthed Tucker. Hugh Muir's diary
- I appeal to every reader of feeling and sentiment whether the fictitious murther of Duncan by Macbeth in Shakespeare does not excite in him as great a horror of villainy, as the real one of Henry IV by Ravaillac as related by Davila?
