- 1虛構的、假的（偏「不是真的」；用在假名、空頭公司時，比 fictional 硬）
If something is fictitious, it is not true, or it is not real. A fictitious name is a name someone made up. A fictitious company may exist only on paper. The word can be gentle — a fictitious character in a children’s book — but it often leans toward “this was invented, and you should not take it as fact”. Banks, courts, and news reports like it, because they need a word for things that look real but are not. Though actually, in everyday talk people just say fake, made-up, or false. Fictitious sounds more official, a little colder. It is not the same as fictional. Fictional points at stories: this person lives in a novel. Fictitious points at truth: this is not it. You can have a fictitious address on a form with no story in sight.
From the word’s history
From Latin fictīcius.
借自拉丁文 fictīcius「捏造的」。
組成Borrowed from Latin fictīcius, “made up, sham”, from a root meaning to shape or invent.
同家族的字
- fictionsame Latin idea of something invented rather than found
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
fictitiousadj/fɪkˈtɪʃəs/
- 1
Invented; contrived.
- Here we demonstrate that the explanation for this arises from subtle end-of-packet and wavetrain gradient effects such as microbreaking events and wave-flow decomposition subtleties required to conserve mass and momentum and avoid fictitious external forces.
- It is there in Trump’s decision to grant asylum to white South Africans because of a fictitious “white genocide” said to be taking place in their country.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。