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Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.
Jacque Fresco

Meaning of "fictitious" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FICTITIOUS

fictitious  [fɪkˈtɪʃəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FICTITIOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Fictitious is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES FICTITIOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of fictitious in the English dictionary

The definition of fictitious in the dictionary is not genuine or authentic; assumed; false. Other definition of fictitious is of, related to, or characteristic of fiction; created by the imagination.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FICTITIOUS


ablatitious
ˌæbləˈtɪʃəs
addititious
ˌædɪˈtɪʃəs
adscititious
ˌædsɪˈtɪʃəs
adventitious
ˌædvɛnˈtɪʃəs
ascititious
ˌæsɪˈtɪʃəs
cementitious
ˌsɪmɛnˈtɪʃəs
excrementitious
ˌekskrɪmenˈtɪʃəs
factitious
fækˈtɪʃəs
fermentitious
ˌfɜːmɛnˈtɪʃəs
obreptitious
ˌɒbrɛpˈtɪʃəs
profectitious
prəfekˈtɪʃəs
recrementitious
ˌrɛkrɪmənˈtɪʃəs
repetitious
ˌrɛpɪˈtɪʃəs
stalactitious
ˌstæləkˈtɪʃəs
subreptitious
ˌsʌbrepˈtɪʃəs
supposititious
səˌpɒzɪˈtɪʃəs
surreptitious
ˌsʌrəpˈtɪʃəs
tralaticious
ˌtræləˈtɪʃəs
tralatitious
ˌtræləˈtɪʃəs
triticeous
trɪˈtɪʃəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FICTITIOUS

fictile
fiction
fictional
fictionalisation
fictionalise
fictionality
fictionalization
fictionalize
fictionally
fictioneer
fictionisation
fictionise
fictionist
fictionization
fictitiously
fictitiousness
fictive
fictively
fictiveness
fictor

WORDS THAT END LIKE FICTITIOUS

ambitious
captious
cautious
conscientious
contentious
delicious
expeditious
facetious
flirtatious
infectious
nutritious
ostentatious
pretentious
rambunctious
scrumptious
superstitious
tendentious
tortious
unambitious
unpretentious
vexatious

Synonyms and antonyms of fictitious in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FICTITIOUS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «fictitious» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of fictitious

Translation of «fictitious» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FICTITIOUS

Find out the translation of fictitious to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fictitious from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fictitious» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

虚假的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ficticio
570 millions of speakers

English

fictitious
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

फर्जी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

همية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

фиктивная
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fictício
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কল্পিত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fictif
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Fiktif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

erfunden
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

虚偽の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

허위의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Fiktif
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hư cấu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கற்பனையான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

काल्पनिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hayali
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fittizio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

fikcyjne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

фіктивна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fictiv
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πλασματική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

fiktiewe
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fiktiv
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fiktiv
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fictitious

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FICTITIOUS»

The term «fictitious» is quite widely used and occupies the 32.892 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FICTITIOUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «fictitious» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «fictitious» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fictitious

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10 QUOTES WITH «FICTITIOUS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word fictitious.
1
Bill Ackman
Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.
2
Bill Ackman
If you look at the great frauds of all time, Enron had that phantom trading floor. What Herbalife has is it has phantom or fictitious customers.
3
Russell Baker
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
4
John Banville
With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family.
5
Frederic Bastiat
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
6
Zbigniew Brzezinski
We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
7
James D'arcy
Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don't want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can.
8
Jacque Fresco
Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.
9
Garet Garrett
The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
10
Colleen McCullough
My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FICTITIOUS»

Discover the use of fictitious in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fictitious and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Fictitious Love
Expressed in journal form, my book is about my life and issues related to my first experience with love and how that first wrong interpretation affected me over the years.
Viola Jones, 2010
2
The Fictitious Commodity: A Study of the U.S. Labor Market, ...
In 19th-century America unskilled labor was both expensive and in short supply. According to Korver, new immigration coupled unskilled labor with the novel option of citizenship.
Ton Korver, 1990
3
Fictitious Criticism at the Close of the 1960s: Parody, ...
This essay evaluates fictitious criticism as a heretofore largely ignored phenomenon that existed in art writing of the late 1960s and early 1970s, examining three exemplary cases: First, a set of 1969 self-interviews conducted by ...
Erin Starr White, 2008
4
Fictitious Beasts: A Bibliography
A part of the Duke Medical Center Library History of Medicine Ephemera Collection.
Margaret W. Robinson, 1961
5
Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in Art - With Special ...
The writing of this book has afforded him pleasure in his leisure moments, and that pleasure would be much increased if he knew that the perusal of it would create any bond of sympathy between himself and the angling community in general.
John Vinycomb, 2008
6
Alternate Gerrolds: An Assortment of Fictitious Lives
Largely consisting of stories featuring an alternative history, and often written for Mike Resnick's Alternative series, the stories range from funny to horrifying and lighthearted to profound. In "Franz Kafka, Superhero!
David Gerrold, 2013
7
London After Recession: A Fictitious Capital?
This book examines the impact of the recession and discusses London's future trajectory as an entrepreneurial city and capital of the United Kingdom.
Professor Gavin Poynter, Dr Iain MacRury, Dr Andrew Calcutt, 2012
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
Inspector Gently (Fictitious character) USE Gently, George (Fictitious character) Inspector George Gently (Fictitious character) USE Gently, George (Fictitious character) Inspector Ghote (Fictitious character) USE Ghote, Ganesh (Fictitious ...
Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office, 2006
9
Incorporate Your Business: In Any State
A sole proprietorship can operate under the name of its owner or it can do business under a fictitious name, such as Nancy's Nail Salon. The fictitious name is simply a trade name—it does not create a legal entity separate from the sole ...
Michael Spadaccini, 2007
10
The Fictitious Marquis
Lady Julia Highsmith saves Jamie Lowell from the gallows because she needs a temporary husband in order to get her inheritance, but their agreement does not plan for a passion so strong it overcomes all secrets and scandals.
Alina Adams, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FICTITIOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fictitious is used in the context of the following news items.
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Somaliland:Madasha used in fictitious UK Foreign office meeting …
The gentleman whose photos were used in the Madasha/Qulumbe scandalous claim of meeting with Foreign and Commonwealth officials in ... «SomalilandPress, Jul 15»
2
MIT Prof Shames US for 'Fictitious and Bizarre' - Sputnik International
US plans to deploy the B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb are “fictitious” and “bizarre,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Professor ... «Sputnik International, Jul 15»
3
Former Patriots Player and Former Bank Executive Indicted on … - FBI
In other instances, Allen and Daub are accused of collecting money from investors to fund fictitious loans. To keep investors from discovering ... «Federal Bureau of Investigation, Jul 15»
4
What was HBO thinking when it greenlighted the agonizing '7 Days …
Directed by Jake Szymanski and written by Murray Miller, the film is a feeble attempt at a sports mockumentary, recounting a fictitious 2001 ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
5
Man arrested after possible meth, heroin found in his possession
... of controlled substance with intent to deliver, possession of drug paraphernalia, driving on a suspended license, and fictitious vehicle license. «THV 11, Jul 15»
6
Ontario Mayor's Court - Mansfield News Journal
Ronald E. Stephens, 413 St. Rt. 603 W., Shiloh; illegal plates/fictitious plates; $250 fine. William L. Steward, 89½ Broadway St., Shelby; non ... «Mansfield News Journal, Jul 15»
7
Speedway audit: Former fire chief accused of misusing more than …
The post office box where the check was sent -- supposedly belonging to Fireprof -- was managed by Watson and the business is fictitious, ... «WRTV Indianapolis, Jul 15»
8
American Pharoah owner Zayat asks judge to toss out libel lawsuit …
Zayat told the News in May that Rubinsky's lawsuit was "a fictitious story from people who are trying to extort me. It's laughable. When we asked ... «NJ.com, Jul 15»
9
Kwankwaso: 'Petitioners Are Fictitious, Bunch Of Liars'
The leadership of the Kano State Pensioners have disassociated itself and the generality of pensioners in the state from the petitions written by ... «Leadership Newspapers, Jul 15»
10
Court certifies class action alleging fictitious “sale” prices by J.C. …
A California federal judge recently certified a class action lawsuit that alleges violations of California consumer protection laws by J.C. Penney ... «Lexology, Jul 15»

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