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adjective
1.
created, taken, or assumed for the sake of concealment; not genuine; false: fictitious names.
Origin:
1605–15; < Latin fictīcius artificial, equivalent to fict(us) shaped, feigned (see fiction) + -īcius -itious
1605–15; < Latin fictīcius artificial, equivalent to fict(us) shaped, feigned (see fiction) + -īcius -itious
Related forms
fic·ti·tious·ly, adverb
fic·ti·tious·ness, noun
half-fic·ti·tious, adjective
half-fic·ti·tious·ly, adverb
half-fic·ti·tious·ness, noun
EXPANDnon·fic·ti·tious, adjective
non·fic·ti·tious·ly, adverb
non·fic·ti·tious·ness, noun
qua·si-fic·ti·tious, adjective
qua·si-fic·ti·tious·ly, adverb
sem·i·fic·ti·tious, adjective
un·fic·ti·tious, adjective
un·fic·ti·tious·ly, adverb
COLLAPSECan be confused: 1. facetious, factious, factitious, fictional, fictitious; 2. factitious, fictional, fictitious, fictive.
Synonyms
1. spurious, fake. 2. fictional.
1. spurious, fake. 2. fictional.
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Fictitious
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
fictitious
1610s, from M.L. fictitus, a misspelling of L. ficticius "artificial, counterfeit," from fictus, pp. of fingere (see fiction).
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