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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionaryfic·ti·tious \fik-ˈti-shəs\ adjective ETYMOLOGY Latin ficticius artificial, feigned, from fictus DATE circa 16331. of, relating to, or characteristic of fiction : imaginary2. a. conventionally or hypothetically assumed or accepted a fictitious concept b. of a name : false, assumed3. not genuinely felt• fic·ti·tious·ly adverb• fic·ti·tious·ness nounSynonyms. fictitious, fabulous, legendary, mythical, apocryphal mean having the nature of something imagined or invented. fictitious implies fabrication and suggests artificiality or contrivance more than deliberate falsification or deception fictitious characters fabulous stresses the marvelous or incredible character of something without necessarily implying impossibility or actual nonexistence a land of fabulous riches legendary suggests the elaboration of invented details and distortion of historical facts produced by popular tradition the legendary exploits of Davy Crockett mythical implies a purely fanciful explanation of facts or the creation of beings and events out of the imagination mythical creatures apocryphal implies an unknown or dubious source or origin or may imply that the thing itself is dubious or inaccurate a book that repeats many apocryphal storiesOxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7fictitiousfic·ti·tious / fik5tiFEs / adjective invented by sb rather than true 虚构的；虚假的: All the places and characters in my novel are fictitious (= they do not exist in real life). 我小说中的人物地点纯属虚构。 Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of EnglishOxford Collocations dictionary for students of Englishfictitious adj. VERBS be His story is wholly fictitious. ADV. entirely, purely, totally, wholly | largelyOLTfictitious adj.⇨ fictionalWebster's Third New International Dictionary, UnabridgedSearch result show the entry is found in: fictitious personfic·ti·tious\(ˈ)fik|tishəs\ adjectiveEtymology: Latin fictitius, ficticius, from fictus (past participle of fingere to shape, form, devise, feign) + -itius, -icius -itious — more at dough1. : of, relating to, or suggestive of fiction or a fiction < fictitious value >: imaginary2. a. (1) : conventionally or hypothetically assumed < a fictitious entity > < a fictitious concept > (2) : accepted although known to be untrue, unnatural, or unreal :arbitrarily accepted as genuine < like a jealous stepmother … wary of the favors she bestows on her fictitious offspring — J.F.Cooper > b. of a name : assumed c. of a celestial object : assumed at a given time to be in the position that would be occupied if the apparent motion were perfectly uniform < the fictitious sun >3. : feigned, simulated : not genuinely felt < sure that this equanimity was fictitious — George Meredith >Synonyms: fabulous, legendary, mythical, apocryphal: fictitious applies to fabrication or contrivance, often artful, without necessary intent to deceive, or to false evaluation < a fictitious reconstruction of primitive life before the coming of the white man — American Guide Series: Oregon > < he was a novelist: his amours, and his characters, were fictitious — O.S.J.Gogarty > < a fictitious expansion of expenditure creating a morbid speculation — Norman Angell > fabulous applies to the marvelous or incredible; it describes that which, existent or not, transcends accustomed sober reality < fabulous atomic weapons > < the fabulous pirate treasures of Captain Kidd > < out in Montana in the 1860s fabulous mining strikes made boom towns overnight — Saturday Review > < the mouth of the converter belched fire like some fabulous dragon, its flames leaping forty or fifty feet into the air — Allan Nevins & H.S.Commager > legendary may apply to that which undergoes distortion, elaboration, or exaggeration by popular tradition < legendary wonders, such as the Seven Cities which, situated on great heights, had jewel-studded doorways and whole streets of busy goldsmiths — Allan Nevins & H.S.Commager > < legendary history reported in the next generation that the elements had been pregnant with auguries: images had sweated; the sky had blazed with meteors — J.A.Froude > mythical suggests quite fanciful or imaginative creation, embellishment, or explanation and implies nonexistence < these ancestors are not creations of the mythical fancy but were once men of flesh and blood — J.G.Frazer > < the mythical islands, Antilia, St. Brendan, and the rest, with which map makers had for centuries decorated their maps — G.C.Sellery > apocryphal suggests lack of known authentic source and implies spuriousness or dubiousness about what is described < it is not possible to attach much weight to the Sanson memoirs — they are so plainly apocryphal — Agnes Repplier > < tales, possibly apocryphal and certainly embroidered, of his feats of intelligence work in the eastern Mediterranean — R.W.Firth >

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