Dictionary

fictitious en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /fɪkˈtɪʃəs/ (Australia, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *dʰinéǵʰti Proto-Italic *θingō Proto-Italic *fingōder. Latin fingō Latin fictus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -īcus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -īcius Latin fictīciusbor. English fictitious Borrowed from Latin fictīcius.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Invented; contrived.
   • It is there in Trump’s decision to grant asylum to white South Africans because of a fictitious “white genocide” said to be taking place in their country. 2026 January 21, David Smith, “Trump paints himself as great white hope in racism-drenched Davos speech”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2026:
   • Near-synonyms: fake, fictional
   • Here we demonstrate that the explanation for this arises from subtle end-of-packet and wavetrain gradient effects such as microbreaking events and wave-flow decomposition subtleties required to conserve mass and momentum and avoid fictitious external forces. 2015, Clifford Chafin, “The Absence of Stokes Drift in Waves”, in arXiv, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2024:

Forms

Deriveds

fictitious force · unfictitious · fictitiously · fictitiousness · fictitious person

Synonyms

contrived · imaginary · invented · fictive · fabled · fake · fictional

Translations (56)

oc fictici (invented) · hi कल्पित (invented) · be вы́думаны (invented) · bg фикти́вен (invented) · uk ви́гаданий (invented) · ru фикти́вный (invented) · cs fiktivní (invented) · uk фікти́вний (invented) · sh fìktīvan (invented) · de erfunden (invented) · nb fiktiv (invented) · sh фѝктӣван (invented) · sk vymyslený (invented) · de fiktiv (invented) · da fiktiv (invented) · la fictus (invented) · es inventado (invented) · sk fiktívny (invented) · hi मनगढ़ंत (invented) · bg въобра́жаем (invented) · gd breugach (invented) · be фікты́ўны (invented) · nn fiktiv (invented) · cmn 虛構的 /虚构的 (invented) · ko 허구적 (invented) · ml സാങ്കൽപ്പിക (invented) · sl fiktiven (invented) · it fittizio (invented) · be выабража́льны (invented) · bg изми́слен (invented) · ast ficticiu (invented) · ru вы́мышленный (invented) · sh ѝзмишљен (invented) · sh ìzmišljen (invented) · ro fictiv (invented) · la commentus (invented) · sl izmišljen (invented) · pl fikcyjny (invented) · fr fictif (invented) · sv fiktiv (invented) · cs smyšlený (invented) · mk измислен (invented) · ar مُخْتَلَق (invented) · cmn 編造的 /编造的 (invented) · nl fictief (invented) · hu képzelt (invented) · ca fictici (invented) · pl zmyślony (invented) · pt fictício (invented) · oc fictiu (invented) · gl ficticio (invented) · es ficticio (invented) · ru подде́льный (invented) · mk фиктивен (invented) · fi keksitty (invented) · ro născocit (invented)