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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictitious |
| Synonyms: | fabricated, fanciful, fictional, imaginary, imagined, invented, made-up, make-believe, pretend |
| Main Entry: | fictitious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | untrue, made-up |
| Synonyms: | apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bogus*, chimerical, concocted, cooked-up, counterfeit, created, deceptive, delusive, delusory, dishonest, ersatz*, fabricated, factitious, fake, faked, false, fanciful, fantastic, fashioned, feigned, fictional, fictive, figmental, hyped up, illusory, imaginary, imagined, improvised, invented, made, make-believe, misleading, mock, mythical, phony, queer, romantic, sham*, simulated, spurious, suppositious, supposititious, synthetic, trumped-up, unreal |
| Notes: | factitious refers to 'made up, contrived' as opposed to what is genuine, while fictitious is 'made up, contrived' as opposed to what is real; a factitious story might be designed to serve a purpose, but a fictitious story is intended to deceive fictional is pertaining to or found in fiction; fictitious is 'false, fraudulent' or 'non-existent' |
| Antonyms: | actual, certain, confirmed, factual, genuine, proven, real, sincere, sure, true, truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illusory/illusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive, false |
| Synonyms: | apparent, blue-sky, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, delusory, fake, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, hallucinatory, ideal, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, pseudo*, seeming, semblant, sham*, suppositious, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical |
| Antonyms: | certain, factual, real, sure, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imaginative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | creative, inventive |
| Synonyms: | artistic, avant-garde, blue-sky, brain wave, breaking ground, clever, dreamy, enterprising, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, fertile, fictive, high-flown, ingenious, inspired, offbeat, original, originative, pie-in-the-sky, poetic, poetical, productive, quixotic, romantic, utopian, visionary, vivid, way out, whimsical |
| Notes: | imaginary means not based on fact while imaginative means marked by independence and creativity in thought or action |
| Antonyms: | dull, uncreative, unimaginative, uninventive, unresourceful |
| Main Entry: | mythical/mythological |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | make-believe, fairy-tale |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, chimerical, created, fabled, fabricated, fabulous, false, fanciful, fantasy, fictitious, fictive, folkloric, imaginary, invented, legendary, made-up, mythic, nonexistent, pretended, storied, supposititious, traditional, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical |
| Antonyms: | factual, historical, real, true |
| Main Entry: | narrative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | storylike, chronological |
| Synonyms: | anecdotal, fictional, fictive, historical, narrated, recounted, reported, retold, sequential |
| Antonyms: | rambling |
| Main Entry: | unreal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fake, make-believe; hypothetical |
| Synonyms: | aerial, artificial, chimerical, delusive, dreamlike, fabled, fabulous, false, fanciful, fictitious, fictive, figmental, hallucinatory, ideal, illusory, imaginary, imagined, immaterial, impalpable, insincere, insubstantial, intangible, invented, legendary, misleading, mock, mythical, nebulous, nonexistent, notional, ostensible, phantasmagoric, pretended, reachy, romantic, seeming, sham*, storybook, suppositious, supposititious, theoretical, unbelievable, unsubstantial, visionary |
| Antonyms: | authentic, genuine, real |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illusory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive |
| Synonyms: | Barmecidal, apparent, blue sky, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, delusory, fallacious, false, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, float, hallucinatory, ideal, illusive, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, pipe dream, seeming, semblant, sham, suppositious, supposititious, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical |
| Notes: | illusory means based on or having the nature of an illusion; elusive means difficult to describe or skillful at eluding capture |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real |
| Main Entry: | mythical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | make-believe |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, chimerical, created, fabled, fabricated, fabulous, fairy-tale, false, fanciful, fantasy, fictitious, fictive, folkloric, imaginary, invented, legendary, made-up, mythic, mythological, nonexistent, pretended, storied, supposititious, traditional, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical |
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