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Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

imaginary
imaginaryOur daughter had an imaginary friend when she was six.
made-upThe comedian started with some obviously made-up stories about hanging out with the Queen.
make-believeSome politicians seem to live in a make-believe world where everything revolves around their interests.
non-existentThese accounts are used to sell fake or non-existent goods.
fantasticHer books were filled with magicians and fantastic creatures.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

True, real, false, and unreal
actual
actuality
actually
all that glitters is not goldidiom
alternate reality
false
false flag
falsely
fantastical
fever dream
not so muchidiom
nothing could be further from the truthidiom
nothing could have been further from my mind/thoughtsidiom
parallel universe
post-factual
unreal
untrue
untruly
unverifiable
urban myth

fictitious | American Dictionary

fictitious
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/fɪkˈtɪʃ·əs/
invented and not true or existing; false:
He registered at the hotel under a fictitious name.

fictitious | Business English

fictitious
adjective
uk /fɪkˈtɪʃəs/us
not real:
Executives invented fictitious sales to justify amounts transferred offshore.
Many of the internet customers had been giving fictitious names and addresses.

Examples of fictitious

fictitious
The untenability of the fiction theory is most clearly seen when we compare corporate personalities with personalities which are really fictitious.
So she politely goes along with the nave believer and becomes an ironic believer in i the fictitious life she is supposed to have led.
The majority are based around actual or fictitious events with a mildly anti-establishment character, often involving personal and physical threats or accidents.
Figure 4 shows the structure of visual impedance control considered for the case of fictitious forces.
Lastly, an attempt has been made to estimate the significance of the various elements, historical, mythical and fictitious, of which the stories are composed.
They create and flaunt fictitious commodities as well as identities.
Let us now take into account the difference between the shapes of the streamlines in the gas and fictitious flows.
Fictitious play between transparent agents seems a definite non-starter for our understanding of this process.
Grounded in the qualitative experiences of a fictitious family, the book is divided into seven chapters.
We suppose that the obstacles position generates a fictitious force, which depends on the distance between the mobile robot and obstacle.
Apparently, a laser pulse will propagate with increasing velocity in such a fictitious plasma.
Figure 4 shows a simplified calculation of grades for a fictitious class.
The trouble is that sometimes people listen to them and, without the wherewithall to distinguish between real and fictitious problems, act on what they hear.
We introduce two additional fictitious actions stop and noop and a new fluent ended.
Approximately a quarter of participants came to believe in the occurrence of such fictitious events.
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