fictitious

English

Alternative forms

• ficticious, fictious (archaic, otherwise misspelling)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fictīcius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɪkˈtɪʃəs/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃəs
• Hyphenation: fic‧ti‧tious

Adjective

fictitious (not comparable)

1. Invented; contrived.

   Synonyms: imaginary, invented, contrived, fictive

   • 2015, Clifford Chafin, “The Absence of Stokes Drift in Waves”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     Here we demonstrate that the explanation for this arises from subtle end-of-packet and wavetrain gradient effects such as microbreaking events and wave-flow decomposition subtleties required to conserve mass and momentum and avoid fictitious external forces.

Derived terms

• fictitious force
• fictitiously
• fictitiousness
• unfictitious

Translations

invented

• Arabic: مُخْتَلَق (muḵtalaq)
• Asturian: ficticiu
• Belarusian: вы́думаны (výdumany), фікты́ўны (fiktýŭny), выабража́льны (vyabražálʹny)
• Bulgarian: изми́слен (bg) (izmíslen), въобра́жаем (bg) (vǎobrážaem), фикти́вен (bg) (fiktíven)
• Catalan: fictici
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 編造的 / 编造的 (zh) (biānzào de), 虛構的 / 虚构的 (zh) (xūgòu de)

• Czech: smyšlený (cs), fiktivní (cs)
• Danish: fiktiv (da)
• Dutch: fictief (nl)
• Finnish: keksitty (fi)
• French: fictif (fr)
• Galician: ficticio
• German: erfunden (de), fiktiv (de)
• Hungarian: képzelt (hu)
• Italian: fittizio (it)
• Korean: 허구적(虛構的) (heogujeok)
• Latin: fictus, commentus
• Macedonian: измислен (izmislen), фиктивен (fiktiven)
• Malayalam: സാങ്കൽപ്പിക (sāṅkalppika)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fiktiv

  Nynorsk: fiktiv

• Occitan: fictiu (oc), fictici
• Polish: fikcyjny (pl), zmyślony (pl)
• Portuguese: fictício (pt)
• Romanian: fictiv (ro), născocit
• Russian: фикти́вный (ru) (fiktívnyj), вы́мышленный (ru) (výmyšlennyj), подде́льный (ru) (poddélʹnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: breugach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ѝзмишљен, фѝктӣван

  Roman: ìzmišljen (sh), fìktīvan (sh)

• Slovak: vymyslený, fiktívny
• Slovene: izmišljen, fiktiven
• Spanish: ficticio (es), inventado (es)
• Swedish: fiktiv (sv)
• Ukrainian: ви́гаданий (výhadanyj), фікти́вний (fiktývnyj)

See also

• fictional