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单词 fictitious
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Definition of fictitious in English:

fictitious

adjective fɪkˈtɪʃəsfɪkˈtɪʃəs
  • 1Not real or true; imaginary or fabricated.

    reports of a deal were dismissed as fictitious by the Minister
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Halfbakery is a communal database of original, fictitious inventions, edited by its users.
    • A new series of posters is making its appearance on the university campus, featuring fictitious sufferers of psychoses.
    • Grossly overvalued shares in these companies provided a fictitious tax base from employee stock options and capital gains.
    • In the last year, management tried to conceal the looming bankruptcy by the fictitious sale of the bank's real estate subsidiary.
    • Murphy was a fictitious freelancer Reynolds invented to extract some extra cash from the Irish Press.
    • Claims of working for the fictitious water board allowed bogus callers to steal from the home of an elderly Chelmsford resident.
    • After all, by inventing a fictitious past, success in overcoming it would seem to be guaranteed.
    • The company had sold funds for largely fictitious assets and had hired an actress to deliver a false audit report for investors.
    • Never cheat by inventing a fictitious cab driver with whom you argue.
    • Better to discover how science is in fact developed and learned than to fabricate a fictitious structure to a similar effect.
    • Getting thrown out of it, preferably after signing in under a fictitious and assumed name, was always a local rite of passage.
    • Respondents were asked to indicate which items were indeed the titles of real children's books as opposed to fictitious titles.
    • We do not use pretentious, fictitious terms for my establishment's beverages.
    • Each group not only had to design the game, but invent a fictitious company, and determine their roles within it.
    • However, when used for purposes of assessing taxes, fictitious values do indeed become real ones.
    • We made some phone calls to our people in the north, and they all confirmed that this is a true story and it's not a fictitious story.
    • This must be a real, not a fictitious, intention, so it hardly arises in the case of a fraudster.
    • It is believed by historians of mathematics that this is entirely fictitious and was merely invented by the authors.
    • She used four fictitious names on bogus loan applications to her company and pocketed the proceeds.
    • Ms Moore, the department and Downing Street issued blanket denials, claiming the e-mail was fabricated and fictitious.
    Synonyms
    false, fake, counterfeit, fabricated, sham
    untrue, bogus, spurious, assumed, affected, adopted, feigned, invented, made up, concocted, improvised
    informal pretend, phoney
    British informal, dated cod
  • 2Occurring in or invented for fiction.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's crucial, nonetheless, to draw the distinction between fictitious creatures and real human beings.
    • For the first time, the Indian Postal Services Department has issued a stamp on a fictitious character.
    • Even though the character is completely fictitious, it always retains some of the qualities of the player.
    • Our entirely fictitious character begins his work day, as many of us do, by opening his email client and checking for new messages.
    • This character could be fictitious and yet the story would have had the same powerful message.
    • Like the other expansion packs, there's a fictitious near-future story behind Thunder.
    • I always think it's kind of neat to take some past historical event and tweak it into a fictitious story.
    • Memorials are built for great human beings and not for fictitious characters.
    • The process he describes is historical though the characters who bring the process to life are fictitious.
    • The actual events and people portrayed in Equivocal Death are entirely fictitious.
    • Spearman is a fictitious character, the hero of a series of murder mysteries written by Marshall Jevons.
    • We spend a lot of time in this electronic community, but do we ever stop to think whether this community is real or fictitious?
    • Since this is a fictitious character, the authors depict him as they please.
    • It's a two-hour fictitious psychological thriller that has real elements to it.
    • It is set in a fictitious women's college in a wholly real Oxford, where a poison pen is causing increasing alarm and distress among students and staff.
    • The characters from the Dubois Chronicles are fictitious and are of my own creation.
    • It is about a West Coast Rugby team full of larger than life fictitious characters.
    • I fused them into this fictitious character and improvised things about a second marriage my mother had.
    • The Curmudgeon is a satirical column based on fictitious characters in a mythical village.
    Synonyms
    fictional, imaginary, imagined, invented, made up, make-believe, unreal, non-existent, mythical, storybook, apocryphal
    fabricated, concocted, devised
    the product of someone's imagination, a figment of someone's imagination

Derivatives

  • fictitiously

  • adverb fɪkˈtɪʃəslifɪkˈtɪʃəsli
    • And there's even evidence that some of them have gotten a degree and then gone to their employer and had their employer pay them back for tuition that they've spent, again, fictitiously.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Petrov, who was the commander of a flight in which 500 large packages of cigarettes were fictitiously exported to Greece, was charged with smuggling and held in custody.
      • Now well into its second season, Spooks has managed to attract the kind of attention that is usually reserved for the real life events that it fictitiously depicts.
      • In the early 1940s the Ellises rented a house on Donahue Drive owned by a prominent family fictitiously identified by the author as the ‘Cowarts.’
      • As for the charge that certain events were either exaggerated or fictitiously fleshed out, I have only one thing to say: If you want the complete story, read a book.
  • fictitiousness

  • noun fɪkˈtɪʃəsnəsfɪkˈtɪʃəsnəs
    • French journalism is said to deserve demotion into the ‘literary’ not because it is tainted by fictitiousness, but because it does not affirm a transcendental relation to the personal testimony of which it is composed.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But then, Sandy's dim-witted acclamations were often brought up with an air of fictitiousness.
      • While Marvell, Browning, Eliot, etc. had based the genre of lyric around exploring the self-as-structure (its fictitiousness, its layeredness), poets were often being paid well to take the self seriously as an essential whole.
      • ‘There is no such thing as a work of pure factuality,’ writes Janet Malcolm, ‘any more than there is one of pure fictitiousness.’
      • As Hackett feels obliged to point out to the Endons, ‘I am scarcely the outer world’ thus ironically disputing a qualitative difference between different levels of fictitiousness within a work of fiction.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin ficticius (from fingere 'contrive, form') + -ous (see also -itious2).

Rhymes

adventitious, Aloysius, ambitious, auspicious, avaricious, capricious, conspicuous, delicious, expeditious, factitious, flagitious, judicious, lubricious, malicious, Mauritius, meretricious, nutritious, officious, pernicious, propitious, repetitious, seditious, siliceous, superstitious, suppositious, surreptitious, suspicious, vicious
 
 

Definition of fictitious in US English:

fictitious

adjectivefikˈtiSHəsfɪkˈtɪʃəs
  • 1Not real or true, being imaginary or having been fabricated.

    she pleaded guilty to stealing thousands in taxpayer dollars by having a fictitious employee on her payroll
    Example sentencesExamples
    • However, when used for purposes of assessing taxes, fictitious values do indeed become real ones.
    • We do not use pretentious, fictitious terms for my establishment's beverages.
    • Respondents were asked to indicate which items were indeed the titles of real children's books as opposed to fictitious titles.
    • Murphy was a fictitious freelancer Reynolds invented to extract some extra cash from the Irish Press.
    • It is believed by historians of mathematics that this is entirely fictitious and was merely invented by the authors.
    • After all, by inventing a fictitious past, success in overcoming it would seem to be guaranteed.
    • Each group not only had to design the game, but invent a fictitious company, and determine their roles within it.
    • She used four fictitious names on bogus loan applications to her company and pocketed the proceeds.
    • Getting thrown out of it, preferably after signing in under a fictitious and assumed name, was always a local rite of passage.
    • Better to discover how science is in fact developed and learned than to fabricate a fictitious structure to a similar effect.
    • Never cheat by inventing a fictitious cab driver with whom you argue.
    • In the last year, management tried to conceal the looming bankruptcy by the fictitious sale of the bank's real estate subsidiary.
    • The company had sold funds for largely fictitious assets and had hired an actress to deliver a false audit report for investors.
    • This must be a real, not a fictitious, intention, so it hardly arises in the case of a fraudster.
    • Claims of working for the fictitious water board allowed bogus callers to steal from the home of an elderly Chelmsford resident.
    • Ms Moore, the department and Downing Street issued blanket denials, claiming the e-mail was fabricated and fictitious.
    • We made some phone calls to our people in the north, and they all confirmed that this is a true story and it's not a fictitious story.
    • A new series of posters is making its appearance on the university campus, featuring fictitious sufferers of psychoses.
    • Grossly overvalued shares in these companies provided a fictitious tax base from employee stock options and capital gains.
    • Halfbakery is a communal database of original, fictitious inventions, edited by its users.
    Synonyms
    false, fake, counterfeit, fabricated, sham
    1. 1.1 Relating to or denoting the imaginary characters and events found in fiction.
      the people in this novel are fictitious; the background of public events is not
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Spearman is a fictitious character, the hero of a series of murder mysteries written by Marshall Jevons.
      • I fused them into this fictitious character and improvised things about a second marriage my mother had.
      • The Curmudgeon is a satirical column based on fictitious characters in a mythical village.
      • I always think it's kind of neat to take some past historical event and tweak it into a fictitious story.
      • It's a two-hour fictitious psychological thriller that has real elements to it.
      • It is set in a fictitious women's college in a wholly real Oxford, where a poison pen is causing increasing alarm and distress among students and staff.
      • Since this is a fictitious character, the authors depict him as they please.
      • Like the other expansion packs, there's a fictitious near-future story behind Thunder.
      • This character could be fictitious and yet the story would have had the same powerful message.
      • It is about a West Coast Rugby team full of larger than life fictitious characters.
      • For the first time, the Indian Postal Services Department has issued a stamp on a fictitious character.
      • The characters from the Dubois Chronicles are fictitious and are of my own creation.
      • Even though the character is completely fictitious, it always retains some of the qualities of the player.
      • It's crucial, nonetheless, to draw the distinction between fictitious creatures and real human beings.
      • The actual events and people portrayed in Equivocal Death are entirely fictitious.
      • Memorials are built for great human beings and not for fictitious characters.
      • Our entirely fictitious character begins his work day, as many of us do, by opening his email client and checking for new messages.
      • We spend a lot of time in this electronic community, but do we ever stop to think whether this community is real or fictitious?
      • The process he describes is historical though the characters who bring the process to life are fictitious.
      Synonyms
      fictional, imaginary, imagined, invented, made up, make-believe, unreal, non-existent, mythical, storybook, apocryphal

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin ficticius (from fingere ‘contrive, form’) + -ous (see also -itious).

 
 
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