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Pronunciation:  'fiktiv

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WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  capable of imaginative creation; "fictive talent"
  2. [adj]  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"
 
 Synonyms: assumed, counterfeit, creative, false, fictitious, imitative, originative, pretended, put on, sham
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Fic"tive\, a. [Cf. F. fictif.]
Feigned; counterfeit. ``The fount of fictive tears.''
--Tennyson.

 

 

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