From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfictitiousfic‧ti‧tious /fɪkˈtɪʃəs/ ●○○ adjective FALSEnot true, or not real SYN imaginary a fictitious address fictitious characters
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fictitious• Yet the popular traditions from which such stories presumably came were not always totally fictitious, and can not be simply ignored.• But all these superstitions are really altogether on a fictitious basis.• The setting is a fictitious island in the Chesapeake River.• Your little friendship lamp is now a lighthouse in the fictitious Midwestern city of Springfield.• For the purposes of this chapter I have given the four schools fictitious names.• Does such a fictitious person have a reputation which it can protect by the law of defamation?• The show, which depicts eight officers patrolling the fictitious town of El Camino, debuted March 3.Origin fictitious (1600-1700) Latin ficticius “artificial”, from fictus; → FICTION 