Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or created by imaginative invention.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being fiction; fictional.
- adjective Relating to or being a kinshiplike relationship among people who are not related by heredity, marriage, or adoption, often involving the use of kinship terms.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Formed by the imagination; not really existing; supposititious; fictitious.
- Resulting from imagination; belonging to or consisting of fiction; imaginative.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Feigned; counterfeit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
fictional ,fanciful orinvented
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of imaginative creation
- adjective adopted in order to deceive
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Examples
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Her novel The Sweetest Dream (2001) is a stand-alone sequel in fictive form.
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He described the excited states of the liquid by the motion of certain fictive particles called quasiparticles.
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Painting is, in other words, a fictive art, and it is often most shamelessly fictional when masquerading as unembellished Realism.
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Painting is, in other words, a fictive art, and it is often most shamelessly fictional when masquerading as unembellished Realism.
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It is particularly critical of the celebrated "Autobiography of Malcolm X," now a staple of college reading lists, which was written with Alex Haley and which Mr. Marable described as "fictive."
NYT > Home Page By LARRY ROHTER 2011
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However, for as many life stages and changes as may arise, one's immediate family has the opportunity to extend non-relative or "fictive" kinship ties through deliberate selection.
Hey Compadre 2007
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However, for as many life stages and changes as may arise, one's immediate family has the opportunity to extend non-relative or "fictive" kinship ties through deliberate selection.
Hey Compadre 2007
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This remark might indicate that Bacon finds the same doctrinal problem with the “esse habitudinis” that he finds with the “esse habituale” (i.e., it introduces a foil for some kind of fictive being), but we cannot be certain of this, since he never returned to this topic in the Compendium.
Richard the Sophister Streveler, Paul 2005
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On a tangential note, I can just about see the notion of fictive poetry, cause narrative started out in verse form, after all; and there are works like Tony Harrison’s “Prometheus” which fuse poetry and drama pretty neatly.
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Whatever we call these - whether imaginations or not, indeed you mean to pronounce the pandoramas of 'fictive' dramas: analogic handouts likely to enrich what could be useful should we care to learn.
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