Synonyms for fictitious
fɪkˈtɪʃ əsfic·ti·tious

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1. fictitiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   invented, imaginary, contrived

2. fictitiousadjective

   Not real; invented; contrived.

   St. Mary Mead is a fictitious village from the books of Agatha Christie.

   Synonyms:
   invented, imaginary, contrived

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1. fictitious

   Synonyms:
   apocryphal, baseless, counterfeit, disputed, exploded, fabulous, false, spurious, unauthorized

   Antonyms:
   accepted, accredited, authentic, authoritative, authorized, certain, current, genuine, legitimate, original, real, received, reliable, sure, true, trustworthy, veritable

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1. fictitious

   Synonyms:
   unreal, suppositious, spurious, imaginary

   Antonyms:
   real, true, historical, genuine, authentic, veritable

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1. fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitiousadjective

   formed or conceived by the imagination

   "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"

   Synonyms:
   fancied, put on, assumed, sham, false, pretended, fictional, fabricated, fictive

   Antonyms:
   existent, genuine, real, echt

2. assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, shamadjective

   adopted in order to deceive

   "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"

   Synonyms:
   off-key, fancied, fake, mistaken, imitation, sour, delusive, fictive, simulated, put on, fictional, assumed, false, faux, sham, fabricated, pretended, untrue

   Antonyms:
   real, echt, existent, genuine

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1. fictitiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   feigned, invented, imaginary, fanciful, unreal, not true

2. fictitiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   false, counterfeit, spurious, supposititious, not genuine

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1. List of paraphrases for "fictitious":

   fictional, fictive, dummy, bogus, notional, imaginary, sham, mock, false, shell, fake

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How to use fictitious in a sentence?

1. Matthias Kiener:

   External auditors, unlike [counter-fraud] officers, are not necessarily looking for evidence of fictitious receipts or inappropriate spending in the field, sometimes the due diligence is not done. That might be because many charities are founded on the principle of trust. An NGO might be reluctant to ask tough questions of some of those it employs.

2. Mariano Rajoy:

   This is a fictitious, unreal candidature.

3. Yaakov Menken:

   Repeatedly accusing the Jewish state of Israel of ‘genocide,' ‘apartheid,' and other fictitious crimes while praising China, a country that is putting Muslims in internment camps, indicates an irrational hatred of Jews and not a concern for human rights, with regards to Jews, diversity heads seem to share much in common with grand wizards of the Ku Klux Klan, and it is clear that the entire field needs to be reevaluated before more Jewish students are placed at unnecessary risk.

4. Air Force:

   On June 5, during a passport fraud investigation, the US Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service interviewed an individual claiming to be Barry O'Beirne. After being confronted with inconsistencies about his identity, the individual admitted his true name was William Howard Hughes Jr., and that he deserted from the US Air Force in 1983, capt. Hughes claimed that in 1983 he was depressed about being in the Air Force so he left, created the fictitious identity of O'Beirne and has been living in California ever since.

5. Werner Patzelt:

   They claim that Germany is still an occupied country under US control, or a business enterprise registered in Frankfurt, from such fictitious ‘facts’ they derive both a ‘right’ not to pay taxes and penalties, or to establish ‘provisional political authorities.’.