(a.) Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame.
Example Sentences:
(1) So, they start to create these almost fictitious things they can sell, whether it’s a prime shelf [at the height a shopper is most likely to see] or a gondola end [the promotional buckets often found at the top of the aisle].
(2) Participants in these three groups responded to questions regarding the ethical parameters of a fictitious psychological research protocol.
(3) Synchronization of fictitious scratching with passive moving occurred at the first movement cycle, the phase correlation between them being contrary to that of real scratching.
(4) Allegations of mistreatment by adults made by children of preschool age are often dismissed as fictitious with the suggestion that children of this age are prone to fantasy and unable to discriminate fact from fiction.
(5) They orginally had lofty ambitions of talking about the economy but since they have lost that argument so catastrophically, they have reached for the Ukip playbook to create fictitious stories to scare people about immigrants and release video nasties about Turkish people”.
(6) Conrad's fictitious province of Sulaco broke away from a South American republic named Costaguana, over a silver mine.
(7) Far from absurd and fictitious, state-led cyber espionage is perfectly logical and real.
(8) The survival signature, i.e., the functional dependence of cell survival from cooling rate (determined at a single location), for a fictitious cell kind is also influenced by the location of temperature determination: the "optimum" cooling rate seems to be shifted, and the shape of the signature is changed depending on the location where the cooling rate is determined.
(9) The response to this criticism is usually a spirited defense of the social worker investigation and data distinguishing false ("fictitious") claims from unsubstantiated cases.
(10) Sitting with him as he spoke were Sigourney Weaver and Joel David Moore, who starred in Avatar , which charts the fight of the fictitious Na'vi people against outside attempts to pillage their resources on the planet Pandora.
(11) Fictitious scratching was accompanied by tonic and phasic primary afferent depolarization.
(12) Spiders starting at the fictitious retreat point did not keep straight courses.
(13) China reacted angrily calling the charges "fictitious" and "absurd", and denying that the country had ever been involved in digital theft.
(14) Seven trained persons interviewed three individuals who reported fictitious interrelated life histories varying in length and complexity.
(15) 9% of this cohort refused the repeated (fictitious) surgery.
(16) One biographer has noted how "the reports of his sexual liaisons – both factual and fictitious – leaked from the private realm to fuel the hectic debate over his qualities as a public man".
(17) He also said that he had immediately dismissed a request by the reporters to establish an all-party parliamentary group to help their fictitious client.
(18) Claims by the captured Iraqi fighters that they were tortured and some survivors killed were proved to be fictitious by the al-Sweady inquiry.
(19) Even Ethan Lipton's show is in on the joke: his fictitious job is that of an "information-refiner".
(20) The two experimental groups showed no significant differences in the volume of distribution and the fictitious initial concentration.
Figment
Definition:
(n.) An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can imagine how frustrating this is for teenagers like myself who make a point of being politically engaged, only to find that our interest is seen as a figment of someone’s imagination.
(2) With no Hull player, let alone the official body that monitors the suspension bridge, remotely aware of such an incident, The Observer put it to Brown that the apparently suicidal female was a figment of his imagination.
(3) Any shift the public may detect in immigration proposals advanced by Donald Trump is a figment of the imagination, top Trump surrogates said in a coordinated maneuver on Sunday.
(4) He wanted so much to convince his mates that he really had spied a miracle and to make sure that his normally placid mind had not fallen victim of some strange figment of the imagination, a confidence trick, a sudden mirage brought on by the unrelenting rays of the sun.'
(5) Earlier, on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, John Redwood, the former cabinet minister, described claims by Ukip donor Stuart Wheeler that up to eight Tories were about to defect as "a figment of Ukip's imagination", as party chiefs sought to calm the party's nerves.
(6) Show us another player who has radiated as much influence as Eric Cantona and we will show you a figment of your imagination.
(7) Many tabloid newspapers have joined in, giving the impression that rape is simply a figment of mad women's imaginations.
(8) It makes this image even more of a figment of my imagination.
(9) The lengthy scenes of flatly described sex, commonly with two women at once, read like pornographic figments.
(10) Redwood dismissed the possibility of eight defectors when he told the Today programme on BBC Radio 4: "The so-called eight are a figment of Ukip's imagination.
(11) Yes, although in this case, I’ve made clever use of ambiguity, because “selfie teeth” are often a figment of your imagination.
(12) But he described the idea of welfare tourism as a "figment of some politician's imagination" because Poles in Britain worked and sent back earnings that have been taxed.
(13) March of the makers remains a figment of Osborne's imagination Read more “A lot of this is driven by the ongoing weakness of global commodity prices.
(14) A claim by Ukip that eight more MPs are thinking of defecting to the party has been dismissed as a figment of the party's imagination by John Redwood, a former Tory cabinet minister and leading Eurosceptic.
(15) Figments of imagination and previous experiences enter into each clinic room emotional situation, and the apprehensions of the child, the parent and the doctor must be anticipated and acknowledged.
(16) Such an investigation would indeed be odious, but it's a figment of Boal's imagination.
(17) It can no longer be rubbished as some spurious subjective figment of the victim’s “paranoid” imagination, which sadly is an attitude that extends far beyond actual abusers.
(18) We aim this useful figment at an (equally hypothetical) photosynthetic system all of whose units are set up to perform the same primary reaction.
(19) She is an outsider, a "difficult" woman whose old comrades from the communist party still smart from her brisk re-evaluation of the movement as a figment of their own "mass psychopathology".
(20) As for the march of the makers, that remains a figment of the chancellor’s imagination.