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fictive - 11 thesaurus results
Main Entry: fictive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fictitious
Synonyms: fanciful, fictional, imaginary, imagined, invented, made-up, make-believe, pretend, fabricated
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
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
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
Main Entry: imaginative
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: creative, inventive
Synonyms: artistic, avant-garde, clever, dreamy, enterprising, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, fertile, high-flown*, ingenious, inspired, offbeat, original, poetic, productive, quixotic, romantic, utopian, visionary, vivid, way out, whimsical, blue-sky, brain wave, breaking ground, fictive, originative, pie-in-the-sky, poetical
Antonyms: dull, unimaginative, uncreative, uninventive, unresourceful
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: narrative
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: storylike, chronological
Synonyms: anecdotal, historical, reported, sequential, fictional, fictive, narrated, recounted, retold
Antonyms: rambling
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
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Main Entry: fancy
Part of Speech: adjective, noun, verb
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Adjectives:
fancy, air-built, air-drawn, bucolic, chimerical, chthonic, commentitious, creative, demiurgic, enthusiastic, excogitous, extravagant, fabulous, fairy, fairylike, fanatic, fanciful, fantastical, fertile, fictive, flighty, haptic, high-flown, ideal, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, imagined, imagining, implicit, in the clouds, inventive, legendary, mythic, mythological, notional, oneiric, oneirotic, original, pastoral, pretend, quixotic, romantic, supermundane, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, visile, visionary, whimsical
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