"fictitious" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /fɪkˈtɪʃəs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-fictitious.wav [US]
Rhymes: -ɪʃəs Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fictīcius. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|fictīcius}} Latin fictīcius Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} fictitious (not comparable)
  1. Invented; contrived. Wikipedia link: fictitious Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: imaginary, invented, contrived, fictive, ficticious, fictious (english: otherwise misspelling) [archaic] Derived forms: fictitious force Related terms: fictional Translations (invented): ficticiu (Asturian), вы́думаны (výdumany) (Belarusian), фікты́ўны (fiktýŭny) (Belarusian), выабража́льны (vyabražálʹny) (Belarusian), изми́слен (izmíslen) (Bulgarian), въобра́жаем (vǎobrážaem) (Bulgarian), фикти́вен (fiktíven) (Bulgarian), fictici (Catalan), 編造的 (Chinese Mandarin), 编造的 (biānzào de) (Chinese Mandarin), 虛構的 (Chinese Mandarin), 虚构的 (xūgòu de) (Chinese Mandarin), smyšlený (Czech), fiktivní (Czech), fiktiv (Danish), fictief (Dutch), keksitty (Finnish), fictif (French), ficticio (Galician), erfunden (German), fiktiv (German), képzelt (Hungarian), fittizio (Italian), 허구적 (heogujeok) (alt: 虛構的) (Korean), fictus (Latin), commentus (Latin), измислен (izmislen) (Macedonian), фиктивен (fiktiven) (Macedonian), സാങ്കൽപ്പിക (sāṅkalppika) (Malayalam), fiktiv (Norwegian Bokmål), fiktiv (Norwegian Nynorsk), fictiu (Occitan), fictici (Occitan), fikcyjny (Polish), zmyślony (Polish), fictício (Portuguese), fictiv (Romanian), născocit (Romanian), фикти́вный (fiktívnyj) (Russian), вы́мышленный (výmyšlennyj) (Russian), подде́льный (poddélʹnyj) (Russian), breugach (Scottish Gaelic), ѝзмишљен [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), фѝктӣван [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), ìzmišljen [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), fìktīvan [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), vymyslený (Slovak), fiktívny (Slovak), izmišljen (Slovene), fiktiven (Slovene), ficticio (Spanish), inventado (Spanish), fiktiv (Swedish), ви́гаданий (výhadanyj) (Ukrainian), фікти́вний (fiktývnyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-fictitious-en-adj-SIz6mrq2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "sense": "invented",
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "invented",
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          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "invented",
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          "sense": "invented",
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          "sense": "invented",
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          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "invented",
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          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
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      "sense": "invented",
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      "code": "ko",
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      "roman": "heogujeok",
      "sense": "invented",
      "word": "허구적"
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      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
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      "sense": "invented",
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      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
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    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "invented",
      "word": "fikcyjny"
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    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "invented",
      "word": "zmyślony"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "invented",
      "word": "fictício"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "invented",
      "word": "fictiv"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "invented",
      "word": "născocit"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "fiktívnyj",
      "sense": "invented",
      "word": "фикти́вный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "výmyšlennyj",
      "sense": "invented",
      "word": "вы́мышленный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "poddélʹnyj",
      "sense": "invented",
      "word": "подде́льный"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "invented",
      "word": "breugach"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "invented",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "ѝзмишљен"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "invented",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "фѝктӣван"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "invented",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "ìzmišljen"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "invented",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "fìktīvan"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "invented",
      "word": "vymyslený"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "invented",
      "word": "fiktívny"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "invented",
      "word": "izmišljen"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "invented",
      "word": "fiktiven"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "invented",
      "word": "ficticio"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "invented",
      "word": "inventado"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "invented",
      "word": "fiktiv"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "výhadanyj",
      "sense": "invented",
      "word": "ви́гаданий"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "fiktývnyj",
      "sense": "invented",
      "word": "фікти́вний"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fictitious"
}

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