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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FICTI'TIOUS, a. [L. fictifius, from fingo, to feign.]
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 conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "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 Etymology: Latin ficticius artificial, feigned, from fictus Date: circa 1633 1. of, relating to, or characteristic of fiction ; imaginary 2. a. conventionally or hypothetically assumed or accepted <a fictitious concept> b. of a name false, assumed 3. not genuinely felt • fictitiously adverb • fictitiousness noun Synonyms: fictitious, fabulous, legendary, mythical, apocryphal mean having the nature of something imagined or invented. fictitious implies fabrication and suggests artificiality or contrivance more than deliberate falsification or deception <fictitious characters>. fabulous stresses the marvelous or incredible character of something without necessarily implying impossibility or actual nonexistence <a land of fabulous riches>. legendary suggests the elaboration of invented details and distortion of historical facts produced by popular tradition <the legendary exploits of Davy Crockett>. mythical implies a purely fanciful explanation of facts or the creation of beings and events out of the imagination <mythical creatures>. apocryphal implies an unknown or dubious source or origin or may imply that the thing itself is dubious or inaccurate <a book that repeats many apocryphal stories>.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 imaginary, unreal. 2 counterfeit; not genuine. 3 (of a name or character) assumed. 4 of or in novels. 5 regarded as what it is called by a legal or conventional fiction. Derivatives: fictitiously adv. fictitiousness n. Etymology: L ficticius (as FICTILE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Person Per"son, n. [OE. persone, persoun, person, parson, OF. persone, F. personne, L. persona a mask (used by actors), a personage, part, a person, fr. personare to sound through; per + sonare to sound. See Per-, and cf. Parson.] 1. A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character. [Archaic] His first appearance upon the stage in his new person of a sycophant or juggler. --Bacon. No man can long put on a person and act a part. --Jer. Taylor. To bear rule, which was thy part And person, hadst thou known thyself aright. --Milton. How different is the same man from himself, as he sustains the person of a magistrate and that of a friend! --South. 2. The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person. A fair persone, and strong, and young of age. --Chaucer. If it assume my noble father's person. --Shak. Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined. --Milton. 3. A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child. Consider what person stands for; which, I think, is a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection. --Locke. 4. A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present. 5. A parson; the parish priest. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 6. (Theol.) Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis. ``Three persons and one God.'' --Bk. of Com. Prayer. 7. (Gram.) One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the subject. Note: A noun or pronoun, when representing the speaker, is said to be in the first person; when representing what is spoken to, in the second person; when representing what is spoken of, in the third person. 8. (Biol.) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals. --Haeckel. True corms, composed of united person[ae] . . . usually arise by gemmation, . . . yet in sponges and corals occasionally by fusion of several originally distinct persons. --Encyc. Brit. Artificial, or Fictitious, person (Law), a corporation or body politic. --blackstone.

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. -- Fic*ti"tious*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Fictitious is used to describe something that is false or does not exist, although some people claim that it is true or exists. We're interested in the source of these fictitious rumours. ADJ: usu ADJ n 2. A fictitious character, thing, or event occurs in a story, play, or film but never really existed or happened. The persons and events portrayed in this production are fictitious. = fictional, imaginary ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Feigned, invented, imaginary, fanciful, unreal, purely ideal. 2. False, counterfeit, spurious, supposititious.

Moby Thesaurus

affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, chimerical, colorable, colored, concocted, cooked-up, counterfeit, counterfeited, created, deceptive, delusive, delusory, dishonest, distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, ersatz, fabricated, fabulous, factitious, fake, faked, false, falsified, fancied, fanciful, fantasied, fantastic, fashioned, feigned, fictional, fictive, figmental, forged, garbled, hatched, illegitimate, illusory, imaginary, imagined, imitation, improvised, invented, junky, legendary, made, made-up, make-believe, man-made, manufactured, misleading, mock, mythic, mythical, mythicized, mythified, mythological, nonactual, nonfactual, nonrealistic, perverted, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo, put-on, put-up, quasi, queer, romantic, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, trumped-up, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, untrue, warped