Adjective
- 1. fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious, unreal (vs. real)
- usage: formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"
- 2. assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham, counterfeit (vs. genuine), imitative
- usage: adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"
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