English-Thai Dictionary

figment

N สิ่ง ที่ กุ ขึ้น  เรื่อง ที่ ปั้น แต่ง ขึ้น  เรื่อง จินตนาการ  สิ่ง ที่ นึกไว้ ใน ใจ  fabrication illusion invention sing-ti-ku-kuan

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FIGMENT

n.[L. figmentum, from fingo, to feign. ] An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined. These assertions are the figments of idle brains.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FIGMENT

Fig "ment, n. Etym: [L. figmentum, fr. fingere to form, shape, invent, feign. See Feign. ]

 

Defn: An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined. Social figments, feints, and formalism. Mrs. Browning. It carried rather an appearance of figment and invention. .. than of truth and reality. Woodward.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

figment

fig ment |ˈfigmənt ˈfɪgmənt | ▶noun a thing that someone believes to be real but that exists only in their imagination: it really was Ross and not a figment of her overheated imagination . ORIGIN late Middle English (denoting an invented statement or story ): from Latin figmentum, related to fingere ‘form, contrive. ’ Compare with feign and fiction. The current sense dates from the early 17th cent.

 

Oxford Dictionary

figment

figment |ˈfɪgm (ə )nt | ▶noun a thing that someone believes to be real but that exists only in their imagination: it really was Ross and not a figment of her overheated imagination . ORIGIN late Middle English (denoting an invented statement or story ): from Latin figmentum, related to fingere ‘form, contrive ’. Compare with feign and fiction. The current sense dates from the early 17th cent.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

figment

figment noun a figment of his very creative imagination: invention, creation, fabrication; hallucination, illusion, delusion, fancy, vision. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD See fiction . These notes show fine distinctions in meaning between closely related synonyms to help you find the best word.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

figment

figment noun all this nonsense about ghosts is just a figment of her imagination : invention, production, creation, concoction, fabrication; hallucination, illusion, delusion, mirage, apparition, chimera, fancy, fiction, fable, falsehood, imagining, vision.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

figment

fig ment /fɪ́ɡmənt /名詞 C 空想, 想像, 絵空事 ; 作り事 ▸ a figment of A's imagination A 〈人 〉の空想 [想像 ]の産物 .