英语词汇“fictitious”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	fictitious
释义	fic·ti·tious \(ˈ)fik\|tishəs\ adjective Etymology: Latin fictitius, ficticius, from fictus (past participle of fingere to shape, form, devise, feign) + -itius, -icius -itious — more at dough 1. : of, relating to, or suggestive of fiction or a fiction < fictitious value > : imaginary 2. a. (1) : conventionally or hypothetically assumed < a fictitious entity > < a fictitious concept > (2) : accepted although known to be untrue, unnatural, or unreal : arbitrarily accepted as genuine < like a jealous stepmother … wary of the favors she bestows on her fictitious offspring — J.F.Cooper > b. of a name : assumed c. of a celestial object : assumed at a given time to be in the position that would be occupied if the apparent motion were perfectly uniform < the fictitious sun > 3. : feigned, simulated : not genuinely felt < sure that this equanimity was fictitious — George Meredith > Synonyms: fabulous, legendary, mythical, apocryphal: fictitious applies to fabrication or contrivance, often artful, without necessary intent to deceive, or to false evaluation < a fictitious reconstruction of primitive life before the coming of the white man — American Guide Series: Oregon > < he was a novelist: his amours, and his characters, were fictitious — O.S.J.Gogarty > < a fictitious expansion of expenditure creating a morbid speculation — Norman Angell > fabulous applies to the marvelous or incredible; it describes that which, existent or not, transcends accustomed sober reality < fabulous atomic weapons > < the fabulous pirate treasures of Captain Kidd > < out in Montana in the 1860s fabulous mining strikes made boom towns overnight — Saturday Review > < the mouth of the converter belched fire like some fabulous dragon, its flames leaping forty or fifty feet into the air — Allan Nevins & H.S.Commager > legendary may apply to that which undergoes distortion, elaboration, or exaggeration by popular tradition < legendary wonders, such as the Seven Cities which, situated on great heights, had jewel-studded doorways and whole streets of busy goldsmiths — Allan Nevins & H.S.Commager > < legendary history reported in the next generation that the elements had been pregnant with auguries: images had sweated; the sky had blazed with meteors — J.A.Froude > mythical suggests quite fanciful or imaginative creation, embellishment, or explanation and implies nonexistence < these ancestors are not creations of the mythical fancy but were once men of flesh and blood — J.G.Frazer > < the mythical islands, Antilia, St. Brendan, and the rest, with which map makers had for centuries decorated their maps — G.C.Sellery > apocryphal suggests lack of known authentic source and implies spuriousness or dubiousness about what is described < it is not possible to attach much weight to the Sanson memoirs — they are so plainly apocryphal — Agnes Repplier > < tales, possibly apocryphal and certainly embroidered, of his feats of intelligence work in the eastern Mediterranean — R.W.Firth >
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