Synonyms for fictitious
fɪkˈtɪʃ əsfic·ti·tious

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1. fictitiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   invented, imaginary, contrived

2. fictitiousadjective

   Not real; invented; contrived.

   St. Mary Mead is a fictitious village from the books of Agatha Christie.

   Synonyms:
   invented, imaginary, contrived

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1. fictitious

   Synonyms:
   apocryphal, baseless, counterfeit, disputed, exploded, fabulous, false, spurious, unauthorized

   Antonyms:
   accepted, accredited, authentic, authoritative, authorized, certain, current, genuine, legitimate, original, real, received, reliable, sure, true, trustworthy, veritable

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1. fictitious

   Synonyms:
   unreal, suppositious, spurious, imaginary

   Antonyms:
   real, true, historical, genuine, authentic, veritable

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1. fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitiousadjective

   formed or conceived by the imagination

   "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"

   Synonyms:
   fancied, put on, assumed, sham, false, pretended, fictional, fabricated, fictive

   Antonyms:
   existent, genuine, real, echt

2. assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, shamadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   off-key, fancied, fake, mistaken, imitation, sour, delusive, fictive, simulated, put on, fictional, assumed, false, faux, sham, fabricated, pretended, untrue

   Antonyms:
   real, echt, existent, genuine

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1. fictitiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   feigned, invented, imaginary, fanciful, unreal, not true

2. fictitiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   false, counterfeit, spurious, supposititious, not genuine

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1. List of paraphrases for "fictitious":

   fictional, fictive, dummy, bogus, notional, imaginary, sham, mock, false, shell, fake

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How to use fictitious in a sentence?

1. Rudy Giuliani:

   The narrative about me is fictitious, it seems to be fed by a bunch of cackling hens around the watercooler.

2. Matthias Kiener:

   External auditors, unlike [counter-fraud] officers, are not necessarily looking for evidence of fictitious receipts or inappropriate spending in the field, sometimes the due diligence is not done. That might be because many charities are founded on the principle of trust. An NGO might be reluctant to ask tough questions of some of those it employs.

3. Werner Patzelt:

   They claim that Germany is still an occupied country under US control, or a business enterprise registered in Frankfurt, from such fictitious ‘facts’ they derive both a ‘right’ not to pay taxes and penalties, or to establish ‘provisional political authorities.’.

4. Mark Twain:

   Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

5. Naomi Kahn:

   The Palestinian Authority and Palestinian Authority supporters have proven willing, even eager, to destroy the physical remains of thousands of years of Judeo-Christian culture in an attempt to make way for a fictitious quasi-historical narrative that supports their political agenda.