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| Main Entry: | fictitious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | untrue, made-up |
| Synonyms: | apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bogus*, chimerical, counterfeit, deceptive, delusive, dishonest, ersatz*, factitious, fake, false, fanciful, fantastic, fashioned, feigned, illusory, imaginary, imagined, improvised, made, make-believe, misleading, mock, mythical, phony, queer, romantic, sham*, simulated, spurious, synthetic, unreal, concocted, cooked-up, created, delusory, fabricated, faked, fictional, fictive, figmental, hyped up, invented, suppositious, supposititious, trumped-up |
| 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, real, sincere, sure, true, truthful, proven |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | apocryphal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | questionable; fake |
| Synonyms: | counterfeit, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, false, fictitious, inaccurate, mythical, spurious, unsubstantiated, untrue, unverified, wrong, unauthenticated, ungenuine |
| Antonyms: | authentic, doubtless, real, true |
| Main Entry: | bogus |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | counterfeit |
| Synonyms: | artificial, dummy, ersatz, fake, false, fictitious, forged, fraudulent, imitation, phony, pretended, pseudo, sham, simulated, spurious, not what it is cracked up to be |
| Antonyms: | authentic, genuine, real |
| Main Entry: | counterfeit |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fake, simulated |
| Synonyms: | Hollywood, affected, assumed, bent, bogus*, brummagem, copied, crock, deceptive, delusive, delusory, ersatz, faked, false, feigned, fictitious, fishy*, forged, framed, fraudulent, imitation, misleading, mock, not genuine, not kosher, phony*, pirate, plant*, pretended, pretentious, pseudo, put-on, queer, sham, snide, soft shell, spurious, suppositious, two-faced*, won't fly, wrong |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fabulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amazing, wonderful |
| Synonyms: | 10, aces*, astonishing, astounding, awesome, best, breathtaking, cool*, extravagant, fantastic, fictitious, first-class, groovy*, immense, inconceivable, incredible, legendary, marvelous, mind-blowing*, outrageous, peachy*, phenomenal, prodigious, remarkable, spectacular, striking, stupendous, super, superb, terrific, unbelievable, unreal, wicked*, A-1*, A-OK, doozie, fab, greatest, out-of-sight, out-of-this-world, primo, rad, top drawer, tops, turn-on |
| Antonyms: | common, normal, ordinary, simple |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fake |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | false, imitation |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, assumed, bogus, counterfeit, fictitious, forged, fraudulent, make-believe, mock, phony, pretended, pseudo*, reproduction, sham, simulated, spurious, concocted, fabricated, invented |
| Antonyms: | genuine, original, real, true, truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fallacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | false, wrong |
| Synonyms: | deceptive, delusive, erroneous, fictitious, fishy*, fraudulent, illogical, illusory, incorrect, invalid, irrational, mad, misleading, mistaken, off*, phony, spurious, unfounded, unreal, unreasonable, unsound, untrue, beguiling, deceiving, deluding, delusory, reasonless, sophistic, sophistical, ungrounded, unreasoned, way off |
| Antonyms: | correct, real, true, truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fanciful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary, romantic |
| Synonyms: | absurd, aerial, bizarre, capricious, chimerical, curious, dreamlike, extravagant, fabulous, fantastic, fictitious, flaky*, floating, ideal, illusory, imaginative, imagined, incredible, kinky*, legendary, mythical, offbeat, on cloud nine*, pie in the sky*, pipe dream*, poetic, preposterous, shadowy, unreal, visionary, whimsical, wild, blue sky, castles in the air, fairy-tale, fancied, fantastical, fictional, fictive, notional, suppositious |
| Antonyms: | grave, ordinary, real, serious, sincere, unimaginative, unfanciful, unromantic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | feigned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretended |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, assumed, counterfeit, fake, false, fictitious, imaginary, imagined, imitation, insincere, phony, pretended, pseudo*, sham*, simulated, spurious, fabricated, faked, put-on |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real, sincere |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illusory/illusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive, false |
| Synonyms: | apparent, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, fake, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, fictitious, ideal, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, pseudo*, seeming, sham*, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical, blue-sky, delusory, fictional, fictive, hallucinatory, semblant, suppositious |
| Antonyms: | certain, factual, real, sure, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mythical/mythological |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | make-believe, fairy-tale |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, chimerical, fabled, fabulous, false, fanciful, fantasy, fictitious, imaginary, legendary, made-up, nonexistent, pretended, storied, traditional, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical, created, fabricated, fictive, folkloric, invented, mythic, supposititious |
| Antonyms: | factual, historical, real, true |
| Main Entry: | pretended |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alleged; imaginary |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, assumed, avowed, bogus, charlatan, cheating, concealed, counterfeit, covered, factitious, fake, false, falsified, feigned, fictitious, lying, make-believe, masked, mock, ostensible, phony, pretend, professed, pseudo*, quack*, sham*, simulated, so-called, spurious, supposed, bluffing, dissimulated, impostrous, imposturous, purported, put-on, shammed |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real, sincere |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sham |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | artificial, counterfeit |
| Synonyms: | adulterated, affected, assumed, bogus*, dummy, ersatz*, fake, false, feigned, fictitious, forged, fraudulent, imitation, lying, make-believe, misleading, mock, phony, plaster*, pretend, pretended, pseudo*, simulated, so-called, spurious, substitute, synthetic, untrue |
| Antonyms: | real, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | trumped up |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | made up |
| Synonyms: | bogus, deceitful, dishonest, fake, false, falsified, fictitious, fishy, framed, fraudulent, imaginary, incorrect, invalid, lying, misleading, phony, sham, unfounded, unsound, untrue, concocted, cooked up, cooked-up, devised, fabricated, invented, made up |
| Main Entry: | unreal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fake, make-believe; hypothetical |
| Synonyms: | aerial, artificial, chimerical, delusive, dreamlike, fabled, fabulous, false, fanciful, fictitious, ideal, illusory, imaginary, imagined, immaterial, impalpable, insincere, insubstantial, intangible, legendary, misleading, mock, mythical, nebulous, nonexistent, ostensible, pretended, romantic, seeming, sham*, theoretical, unbelievable, unsubstantial, visionary, fictive, figmental, hallucinatory, invented, notional, phantasmagoric, reachy, storybook, suppositious, supposititious |
| Antonyms: | authentic, genuine, real |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | untrue |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
| Synonyms: | apocryphal, cheating, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, deviant, disloyal, distorted, erroneous, faithless, fallacious, false, fictitious, hollow, inaccurate, inconstant, incorrect, inexact, lying, meretricious, misleading, mistaken, off*, perfidious, recreant, sham*, specious, spurious, traitorous, treacherous, two-faced*, unfaithful, unsound, untrustworthy, untruthful, wide, wrong, counterfactual, dissembling, forsworn, imprecise, out of line, perjured, prevaricating, unloyal |
| Antonyms: | faithful, honest, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illusory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive |
| Synonyms: | apparent, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, fallacious, false, fanciful, fantastic, fictitious, float, ideal, illusive, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, pipe dream, seeming, sham, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical, Barmecidal, blue sky, delusory, fictional, fictive, hallucinatory, semblant, suppositious, supposititious |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real |
| Main Entry: | mythical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | make-believe |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, chimerical, fabled, fabulous, false, fanciful, fantasy, fictitious, imaginary, legendary, made-up, nonexistent, pretended, storied, traditional, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical, created, fabricated, fairy-tale, fictive, folkloric, invented, mythic, mythological, supposititious |
| Main Entry: | assumed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretended |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, bogus, counterfeit, fake, false, feigned, fictitious, imitation, made-up, make-believe, phony, pretended, sham, simulated, spurious, put-on |
| Antonyms: | genuine, natural, real |
| Main Entry: | false |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wrong, made up |
| Synonyms: | apocryphal, bogus, deceitful, delusive, dishonest, distorted, erroneous, ersatz*, fake, fallacious, fanciful, faulty, fictitious, fishy, fraudulent, illusive, imaginary, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, inexact, invalid, lying, mendacious, misleading, mistaken, phony, sham, specious, spurious, trumped up*, unfounded, unreal, unsound, untrue, untruthful, beguiling, casuistic, concocted, contrary to fact, cooked-up, counterfactual, deceiving, misrepresentative, off the mark, sophistical |
| Antonyms: | accurate, actual, correct, factual, genuine, known, precise, real, right, true, valid, substantiated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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