fictiveadj.
/ˈfɪktɪv/, U.S. /ˈfɪktɪv/ 1. In active sense.† a. Given to feigning. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adjective] > engaged in pretence
pretense1395
would-be?c1400
fictive1493
counterfeitc1515
feigningc1540
sembling1568
personating1612
shamming1682
gammoning1817
possum playing1856
simulating1875
1493 Chastysing Goddes Chyldern (de Worde) xi. sig. Bviv/2 In goddes sighte they ben very fyctifs feyners.
b. Adapted to or concerned with the creation of fiction; imaginatively creative.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [adjective] > writing or creating fiction
fabling1548
fictive1865
fictioneering1923
1865 Macmillan's Mag. Dec. 156 The personages whom by his fictive art he had called into being.
1889 J. M. Robertson Ess. Crit. Method 122 Having a..great fictive faculty.
c. Adapted to fashion or form; moulding. rare.
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1875 L. Morris Food of Song v Too formless to inspire The fictive hand.
2. In passive sense.
a. Originating in fiction, created by the imagination, fictitious. Of a name: Assumed.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > only in imagination or unreal
imaginary?1510
imaginative1517
rational1530
fantastical1531
fantasied1561
airy1565
fancied1568
legendary1570
dreamed1597
fabled1606
ideal1611
fictive1612
affectual1614
insubstantiala1616
imaginatorya1618
supposititious1620
fictitious1621
utopian1624
utopic1624
notional1629
affective1633
fictiousa1644
notionary1646
figmental1655
suppositious1655
fict1677
visionary1725
metaphysical1728
unrealized1767
fancy1801
nice-spun1801
subjective1815
aerial1829
transcendental1835
cardboardy1863
mythical1870
cardboard1879
fictionary1882
figmentary1887
alternative1939
alternate1944
fantasized1964
ideate1966
fanciful-
fantastic-
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adjective] > feigned, fictitious > of name, character, etc.
feigned1559
fictitiousa1634
fictive1837
bodger1940
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion vi. 93 Time..to those things whose grounds were verie true, Though naked yet and bare..gaue fictiue ornament.
1837 Fraser's Mag. 15 636 It must be some list of a party..or else the names are fictive.
1860 Ld. Lytton Lucile ii. iv. i. 60 What was there in such fictive woes To thrill a whole theatre?
b. Of a counterfeit or fictitious character, not real, feigned, sham.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [adjective]
feignedc1374
wronga1375
forged14..
falsesome1533
compound1574
flim-flam1577
coined1582
minted1598
fabled1606
commentitial1611
inventive1612
commentitious1615
fictiousa1644
fictitious1660
manufactured1705
commentative1716
made-up1806
inventeda1831
concocted1840
accrete1846
fictive1855
mythical1870
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adjective]
fainta1340
counterfeit1393
pretense1395
feinta1400
feigned1413
disguisyc1430
colourable1433
pretending1434
simulate1435
dissimuled1475
simulative1490
coloureda1500
dissimulate?a1500
simuled1526
colorate1528
dissembled1539
mock1548
devised1552
pretended?1553
artificial1564
supposed1566
counterfeited1569
supposing?1574
affecteda1586
pretensive1607
false1609
supposite1611
simulara1616
simulatory1618
simulated1622
put-ona1625
ironic1631
ironical1646
devisable1659
pretensional1659
pretenced1660
pretensory1663
vizarded1663
shammed?c1677
sham1681
faux1684
fictitious1739
ostensible1762
made-up1773
mala fide1808
assumed1813
semblative1814
fictioned1820
pretextual1837
pseudo1854
fictive1855
schlenter1881
faked1890
phoney1893
phantom1897
1855 Ld. Tennyson Brook in Maud & Other Poems 106 Dabbling in the fount of fictive tears.
1878 W. E. Gladstone Homer 117 The fictive advice of Agamemnon to return home is taken in good earnest.
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