fictitious

fictitious
    adj 1: formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated
           excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional
           character" [syn: {fabricated}, {fancied}, {fictional},
           {fictitious}]
    2: 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" [syn: {assumed}, {false}, {fictitious}, {fictive},
       {pretended}, {put on}, {sham}]
    

Fictitious \Fic*ti"tious\, a. [L. fictitius. See {Fiction}.]
   Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false;
   not genuine; as, fictitious fame.
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         The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones.
                                                  --Pope.
   -- {Fic*ti"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Fic*ti"tious*ness}, n.
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98 Moby Thesaurus words for "fictitious":
      affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus,
      brummagem, chimerical, colorable, colored, concocted, cooked-up,
      counterfeit, counterfeited, created, deceptive, delusive, delusory,
      dishonest, distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered,
      ersatz, fabricated, fabulous, factitious, fake, faked, false,
      falsified, fancied, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, fashioned,
      feigned, fictional, fictive, figmental, forged, garbled, hatched,
      illegitimate, illusory, imaginary, imagined, imitation, improvised,
      invented, junky, legendary, made, made-up, make-believe, man-made,
      manufactured, misleading, mock, mythic, mythical, mythicized,
      mythified, mythological, nonactual, nonfactual, nonrealistic,
      perverted, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo, put-on, put-up,
      quasi, queer, romantic, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated,
      so-called, soi-disant, spurious, supposititious, synthetic, tin,
      tinsel, titivated, trumped-up, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine,
      unnatural, unreal, untrue, warped