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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of, relating to, or able to engage in imaginative invention.
  2. adj. Of, relating to, or being fiction; fictional.
  3. adj. Not genuine; sham.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Formed by the imagination; not really existing; supposititious; fictitious.
  2. Resulting from imagination; belonging to or consisting of fiction; imaginative.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. fictional, fanciful or invented

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Feigned; counterfeit.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. capable of imaginative creation
  2. adj. adopted in order to deceive

Examples

  • “Her novel The Sweetest Dream (2001) is a stand-alone sequel in fictive form.”

    The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 - Bio-bibliography

  • “He described the excited states of the liquid by the motion of certain fictive particles called quasiparticles.”

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1962 - Presentation Speech

  • “Painting is, in other words, a fictive art, and it is often most shamelessly fictional when masquerading as unembellished Realism.”

    John Koch's Best Work Is With Naked Subjects

  • “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.”

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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.”

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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

  • “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.”

    War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No…

  • “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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  • “In later years, Galeano turned to fiction and "fictive" histories.”

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  • fictive" does not mean unreal or ineffective - as we are currently experiencing, the effects of delirious financial capital flows are all too material and evident.”

    Warren Ellis

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