All fictitious synonyms
ficΒ·tiΒ·tious
F f adj fictitious
- mythical β pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
- spurious β not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
- apocryphal β An apocryphal story is one which is probably not true or did not happen, but which may give a true picture of someone or something.
- fictional β invented as part of a work of fiction: Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective.
- phony β not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- misleading β deceptive; tending to mislead.
- fanciful β characterized by or showing fancy; capricious or whimsical in appearance: a fanciful design of butterflies and flowers.
- bogus β If you describe something as bogus, you mean that it is not genuine.
- make-believe β pretense, especially of an innocent or playful kind; feigning; sham: the make-believe of children playing.
- imaginary β existing only in the imagination or fancy; not real; fancied: an imaginary illness; the imaginary animals in the stories of Dr. Seuss.
- counterfeit β Counterfeit money, goods, or documents are not genuine, but have been made to look exactly like genuine ones in order to deceive people.
- sham β something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
- false β not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
- fabricated β to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- artificial β Artificial objects, materials, or processes do not occur naturally and are created by human beings, for example using science or technology.
- assumed β false; fictitious
- chimerical β wildly fanciful; imaginary
- deceptive β If something is deceptive, it encourages you to believe something which is not true.
- delusive β tending to delude; misleading
- dishonest β not honest; disposed to lie, cheat, or steal; not worthy of trust or belief: a dishonest person.
- factitious β not spontaneous or natural; artificial; contrived: factitious laughter; factitious enthusiasm.
- fake β to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
- fantastic β conceived or appearing as if conceived by an unrestrained imagination; odd and remarkable; bizarre; grotesque: fantastic rock formations; fantastic designs.
- feigned β pretended; sham; counterfeit: feigned enthusiasm.
- illusory β causing illusion; deceptive; misleading.
- improvised β made or said without previous preparation: an improvised skit.
- made β simple past tense and past participle of make1 .
- mock β to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- queer β strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular: a queer notion of justice.
- romantic β of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- simulated β to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- synthetic β of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
- unreal β not real or actual.
- delusory β tending to delude; misleading; deceptive: a delusive reply.
- fictive β fictitious; imaginary.
- suppositious β formed from or growing out of supposition: suppositious evidence.
- supposititious β fraudulently substituted or pretended; spurious; not genuine.
- concocted β to prepare or make by combining ingredients, especially in cookery: to concoct a meal from leftovers.
- cooked-up β to prepare (food) by the use of heat, as by boiling, baking, or roasting.
- created β to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.
- faked β to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
- hyped up β intensively or excessively stimulated or exaggerated: an economy hyped-up by arms spending.
- trumped-up β spuriously devised; fraudulent; fabricated: He was arrested on some trumped-up charge.
adjective fictitious
- untrue β not true, as to a person or a cause, to fact, or to a standard.
- made-up β concocted; falsely fabricated or invented: a made-up story.
- pretend β to cause or attempt to cause (what is not so) to seem so: to pretend illness; to pretend that nothing is wrong.
- ersatz β (of a product) Made or used as a substitute, typically an inferior one, for something else.
- fashioned β Simple past tense and past participle of fashion.