Associations to the word «Fictitious»

Wiktionary

FICTITIOUS, adjective. Not real; invented; contrived.
FICTITIOUS FORCE, noun. (physics) A force that appears to act on masses in a non-inertial frame of reference.
FICTITIOUS FORCES, noun. Plural of fictitious force

Dictionary definition

FICTITIOUS, adjective. Formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character".
FICTITIOUS, adjective. 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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats