Fictitious definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary FICTI'TIOUS, a. [L. fictifius ... 1. Feigned; imaginary; not real. The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones. 2. Counterfeit; false; not genuine; as fictitious fame. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: formed or ... 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] Merriam Webster's adjective ...
fictitious character definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: an ... is the main character in the novel" [syn: fictional character, fictitious character, character]
fictitious name definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: (law ... as shown in its articles of incorporation [syn: assumed name, fictitious name, Doing Business As, DBA]
fictitious place definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a ... in fictional or religious writings [syn: imaginary place, mythical place, fictitious place]
... the apecrypha; not canonical; of uncertain authority or credit; false; fictitious. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: being of questionable ... 2. often capitalized of or resembling the Apocrypha Synonyms: see fictitious • apocryphally adverb • apocryphalness noun Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. 1 of ... Apocrypha. 2. Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false. The passages . . . are, however, in part from apocryphal or fictitious works. --Sir G. C. Lewis. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary An ... of English Synonyms a. Unauthentic, legendary, uncanonical, of doubtful authority, fictitious, false, equivocal, dubious, spurious. Moby Thesaurus Albigensian, Arian, Catharist, Donatist ... embroidered, erroneous, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, fallacious, false, falsified, feigned, fictitious, fictive, garbled, heretical, heterodox, hylotheist, hylotheistic, illegitimate, imitation, inaccurate, ...
... 1828 Dictionary FABULOUS, a. 1. Feigned, as a story; devised; fictitious; as a fabulous story; a fabulous description. 2. Related in ... time > 2. told in or based on fable Synonyms: see fictitious • fabulously adverb • fabulousness noun Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. 1 incredible ... story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero. The fabulous birth ... emphasis] Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. Invented, feigned, fictitious, unreal, fabricated, coined. Moby Thesaurus a bit much, abandoned, ace ... fab, fabled, fabricated, fancied, fanciful, fancy, fantasied, fantastic, fascinating, fictional, fictitious, fictive, figmental, forged, formidable, gigantic, gluttonous, great, groovy, hatched, high ...
... for the entertainment of readers; a tale of extraordinary adventures, fictitious and often extravagant, usually a tale of love or war ... ROMANCE, v.i. romans', ro'mans. To forge and tell fictitious stories; to deal in extravagant stories. WordNet (r) 3.0 ... Latin, the language of the Romans, and hence applied to fictitious compositions written in this vulgar tongue; fr. L. Romanicus Roman ... and cf. Romanic, Romaunt, Romansch, Romanza.] 1. A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and ... court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which ...
... feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept. Jothams ... fari to speak — more at ban Date: 14th century a fictitious narrative or statement: as a. a legendary story of supernatural ... a thing only supposed to exist. --v. 1 intr. tell fictitious tales. 2 tr. describe fictitiously. 3 tr. (as fabled adj ... Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an ... Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms I. n. 1. Story (fictitious), tale, parable, apologue, allegory, myth, legend. 2. Plot, action, series ...
... as artificial heat or light; an artificial magnet. 2. Feigned, fictitious; not genuine or natural; as artificial tears. 3. Contrived with ... fusion of several originally distinct persons. --Encyc. Brit. Artificial, or Fictitious, person (Law), a corporation or body politic. --blackstone. Webster's ... Lives in these touches, livelier than life. --Shak. 2. Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine. ``Artificial tears.'' --Shak. 3. Artful; cunning ... Synonyms a. 1. Factitious, made by art, not natural. 2. Fictitious, feigned, counterfeit, counterfeited, sham, spurious. 3. Assumed, affected, forced, strained ... ersatz, euphuistic, fabricated, factitious, fake, faked, false, falsified, fashioned, feigned, fictitious, fictive, forced, garbled, goody-goody, high-sounding, histrionic, hollow, hyperelegant ...
pseudonym definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role ... from pseud- + onyma name — more at name Date: 1833 a fictitious name; especially pen name Oxford Reference Dictionary n. a fictitious name, esp. one assumed by an author. Etymology: F pseudonyme ... Pseu"do*nym, n. [Cf. F. pseudonyme. See Pseudonymous.] A fictitious name assumed for the time, as by an author; a ...
... or supplemental constitution or decree. [See the Adjective.] 2. A fictitious tale or narrative in prose, intended to exhibit the operation ... in the antinovel. Oxford Reference Dictionary 1. n. 1 a fictitious prose story of book length. 2 (prec. by the) this ... came of curiosity to hear some novels. --Latimer. 3. A fictitious tale or narrative, professing to be conformed to real life ... recent, fresh, uncommon, rare. II. n. Tale, romance, story, fiction, fictitious narrative. Foolish Dictionary A fabric that is often (k)nit ...
... FICTI'TIOUSNESS, n. Feigned representation. Merriam Webster's noun see fictitious Webster's 1913 Dictionary 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 ...
... manner (created by the imagination) Merriam Webster's adverb see fictitious Webster's 1913 Dictionary 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 ...