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English-Thai Dictionary

fictitious

ADJ ไม่ จริง  ไม่ แท้  ซึ่ง แต่ง ขึ้นมา  imaginary made-up untrue real mai-jing

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FICTITIOUS

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.

 

FICTITIOUSLY

adv. By fiction; falsely; counterfeitly.

 

FICTITIOUSNESS

n.Feigned representation.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FICTITIOUS

Fic *ti "tious, a. Etym: [L. fictitius. See Fiction. ]

 

Defn: 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

fictitious

fic ti tious |fikˈtiSHəs fɪkˈtɪʃəs | adjective not 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. of, 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. DERIVATIVES fic ti tious ly adverb, fic ti tious ness noun ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin ficticius (from fingere contrive, form ) + -ous (see also -itious 2 ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

fictitious

fictitious |fɪkˈtɪʃəs | adjective 1 not real or true; imaginary or fabricated: reports of a deal were dismissed as fictitious by the Minister. 2 occurring in or invented for fiction. DERIVATIVES fictitiously adverb, fictitiousness noun ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin ficticius (from fingere contrive, form ) + -ous (see also -itious 2 ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

fictitious

fictitious adjective 1 a fictitious name: false, fake, fabricated, sham; bogus, spurious, assumed, affected, adopted, feigned, invented, made up; informal pretend, phony. ANTONYMS genuine. 2 a fictitious character. See fictional.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

fictitious

fictitious adjective 1 police said the name was fictitious: false, fake, counterfeit, fabricated, sham; untrue, bogus, spurious, assumed, affected, adopted, feigned, invented, made up, concocted, improvised; informal pretend, phoney; Brit. informal, dated cod. ANTONYMS genuine. 2 a fictitious character: 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. ANTONYMS factual.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

fictitious

fic ti tious /fɪktɪ́ʃəs /形容詞 1 虚偽の, うその .2 架空の .