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English Dictionary: fictive by the DICT Development Group
2 results for fictive
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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"
    Synonym(s): assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham
  2. capable of imaginative creation; "fictive talent"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fictive \Fic"tive\, a. [Cf. F. fictif.]
      Feigned; counterfeit. [bd]The fount of fictive tears.[b8]
      --Tennyson.
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