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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 or invented

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

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

    The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 - Bio-bibliography 2007

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

    Nobel Prize in Physics 1962 - Presentation Speech 1964

  • 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 2002

  • 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 2002

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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… 2009

  • 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.

    open Democracy News Analysis - Comments 2009

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