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 |
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| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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 |
* = 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: | narrative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | storylike, chronological |
| Synonyms: | anecdotal, historical, reported, sequential, fictional, fictive, narrated, recounted, retold |
| Antonyms: | rambling |
| 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: | 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 |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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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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