Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fictive"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fictive \Fic"tive\, a. [Cf. F. fictif.]
Feigned; counterfeit. ``The fount of fictive tears.''
--Tennyson.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
fictive
adj 1: 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" [syn: {assumed}, {false}, {fictitious},
{pretended}, {put on}, {sham}]
2: capable of imaginative creation; "fictive talent"
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