fictitious

English

Alternative forms

• ficticious (now archaic or a misspelling)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fictīcius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɪkˈtɪʃəs/

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃəs
• Hyphenation: fic‧ti‧tious

Adjective

fictitious (not comparable)

1. Invented; contrived.

   Synonyms: imaginary, invented, contrived, fictive

See also

• fictional

Translations

invented

• Asturian: ficticiu
• Bulgarian: измислен (bg) (izmislen), въображаем (bg) (vǎobražaem)
• Catalan: fictici
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 编造的, 虚构的

• Czech: smyšlený (cs)
• Danish: fiktiv (da)
• Dutch: fictief (nl)
• Finnish: keksitty (fi)
• French: fictif (fr)
• Galician: ficticio
• German: erfunden (de), fiktiv (de)
• Hungarian: képzelt (hu)

• Italian: fittizio (it)
• Korean: 허구적 (heogujeok)
• Latin: fictus, commentus
• Malayalam: സാങ്കൽപ്പിക (sāṅkalppika)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fiktiv

  Nynorsk: fiktiv

• Occitan: fictiu (oc), fictici
• Polish: fikcyjny (pl)
• Portuguese: fictício (pt)
• Romanian: fictiv (ro), născocit
• Russian: фикти́вный (ru) (fiktívnyj), вы́мышленный (ru) (výmyšlennyj), подде́льный (ru) (poddélʹnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: breugach
• Spanish: ficticio (es), inventado (es)
• Swedish: fiktiv (sv)