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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Fictitious \Fic*ti"tious\, a. [L. fictitius. See Fiction.]
     Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false;
     not genuine; as, fictitious fame.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones.
                                                    --Pope.
     -- Fic*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Fic*ti"tious*ness, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Person \Per"son\, n. [OE. persone, persoun, person, parson, OF.
     persone, F. personne, L. persona a mask (used by actors), a
     personage, part, a person, fr. personare to sound through;
     per + sonare to sound. See Per-, and cf. Parson.]
     1. A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or
        manifestation of individual character, whether in real
        life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an
        assumed character. [Archaic]
  
              His first appearance upon the stage in his new
              person of a sycophant or juggler.     --Bacon.
  
              No man can long put on a person and act a part.
                                                    --Jer. Taylor.
  
              To bear rule, which was thy part And person, hadst
              thou known thyself aright.            --Milton.
  
              How different is the same man from himself, as he
              sustains the person of a magistrate and that of a
              friend!                               --South.
  
     2. The bodily form of a human being; body; outward
        appearance; as, of comely person.
  
              A fair persone, and strong, and young of age.
                                                    --Chaucer.
  
              If it assume my noble father's person. --Shak.
  
              Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined.
                                                    --Milton.
  
     3. A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal
        or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or
        child.
  
              Consider what person stands for; which, I think, is
              a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and
              reflection.                           --Locke.
  
     4. A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any
        person present.
  
     5. A parson; the parish priest. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
  
     6. (Theol.) Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions
        of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost);
        an hypostasis. ``Three persons and one God.'' --Bk. of
        Com. Prayer.
  
     7. (Gram.) One of three relations or conditions (that of
        speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being
        spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence
        also to the verb of which it may be the subject.
  
     Note: A noun or pronoun, when representing the speaker, is
           said to be in the first person; when representing what
           is spoken to, in the second person; when representing
           what is spoken of, in the third person.
  
     8. (Biol.) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the
        compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in
        the narrowest sense, among the higher animals. --Haeckel.
  
              True corms, composed of united person[ae] . . .
              usually arise by gemmation, . . . yet in sponges and
              corals occasionally by fusion of several originally
              distinct persons.                     --Encyc. Brit.
  
     Artificial, or Fictitious, person (Law), a corporation
        or body politic. --blackstone.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Fictitious \Fic*ti"tious\, a. [L. fictitius. See Fiction.]
     Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false;
     not genuine; as, fictitious fame.
  
           The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones.
                                                    --Pope.
     -- Fic*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Fic*ti"tious*ness, n.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  fictitious
       adj 1: formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse
              for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional
              character"; "used fictitious names"; "a made-up story"
              [syn: fabricated, fancied, fictional, invented,
               made-up]
       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, fictive, pretended,
           put on, sham]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  fictitious
     Αγγλικά a.
     ανυπόστατος, πλασματικός, φανταστικός

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  fictitious
     a.
     invented; contrived.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  fictitious
     a.
     invented; contrived.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  fictitious
     a.
     invented; contrived.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  fictitious
     a.
     invented; contrived.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  fictitious
     Englanti a.
     keksitty, kuvitteellinen

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  fictitious
     Engelska a.
     fiktiv

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Fictitious /fɪktˈɪʃəs/
  خيالي

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  fictitious //fɪkˈtɪʃəs// 
  въобра́жаем, изми́слен, фикти́вен
  invented

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  fictitious /fɪktˈɪʃəs/ 
  smyšlený

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  fictitious /fɪktˈɪʃəs/ 
  fiktivní

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  fictitious /fɪktˈɪʃəs/
  erfunden, fiktiv , Schein…
   see: entirely fictitious
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  fictitious /fɪktˈɪʃəs/
  fingiert, falsch 
     Synonym: bogus
  

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  fictitious //fɪkˈtɪʃəs// 
  keksitty
  invented

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  fictitious /fɪktˈɪʃəs/ 
  1. काल्पनिक, झूठा
        "Mohan gave a fictitious account for the expenditure on work of digging the well."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  fictitious /fɪktˈɪʃəs/
  izmišljen, izmišljeni

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  fictitious /fɪktˈɪʃəs/
  1. költött
  2. alaptalan
  3. koholt
  4. kitalált
  5. képzelt

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  fictitious /fɪkˈtɪʃəs/ 
    fikcyjny

From English-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-por ]

  fictitious /fiktiʃəs/
  fictício

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  fictitious //fɪkˈtɪʃəs// 
  fiktiv
  invented

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  fictitious /fɪktˈɪʃəs/
  1. uydurma, hayali fictitiously  hayal mahsulu olarak. fictitiousness  hayal mahsulu oluş.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/fɪkˈtɪʃəs/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  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
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 假想的,编造的,虚伪的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 假想的,编造的,虚伪的

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