(adj) capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material), Syn. plastic, moldable, Example:plastic substances such as wax or clay

fiction

(n) a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

fictional

(adj) related to or involving literary fiction, Ant. nonfictional, Example:clever fictional devices; a fictional treatment of the train robbery

fictional animal

(n) animals that exist only in fiction (usually in children's stories)

fictional character

(n) an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story), Syn. character, fictitious character, Example:she is the main character in the novel

fictionalization

(n) a literary work based partly or wholly on fact but written as if it were fiction, Syn. fictionalisation

fictionalize

(v) make into fiction, Syn. retell, fictionalise, Example:The writer fictionalized the lives of his parents in his latest novel

fictitiously

(adv) in a false manner intended to mislead

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53 Collaborative International Dictionary (GCIDE)

Fictile

a. [ L. fictilis. See Fiction. ] Molded, or capable of being molded, into form by art; relating to pottery or to molding in any soft material. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fictile earth is more fragile than crude earth. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The earliest specimens of Italian fictile art. C. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fictile ware, ware made of any material which is molded or shaped while soft; hence, pottery of any sort.

-- Fic"tile*ness, n. -- Fic*til"i*ty n. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fiction

n. [ F. fiction, L. fictio, fr. fingere, fictum to form, shape, invent, feign. See Feign. ] 1. The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind. Bp. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written. Hence: A story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; -- opposed to fact, or reality. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fiction of those golden apples kept by a dragon. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

When it could no longer be denied that her flight had been voluntary, numerous fictions were invented to account for it. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances. [ 1913 Webster ]

The office of fiction as a vehicle of instruction and moral elevation has been recognized by most if not all great educators. Dict. of Education. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue.

Syn. -- Fabrication; invention; fable; falsehood. -- Fiction, Fabrication. Fiction is opposed to what is real; fabrication to what is true. Fiction is designed commonly to amuse, and sometimes to instruct; a fabrication is always intended to mislead and deceive. In the novels of Sir Walter Scott we have fiction of the highest order. The poems of Ossian, so called, were chiefly fabrications by Macpherson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fictional

a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic.“Fictional rather than historical.” Latham. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fictionist

n. A writer of fiction. [ R. ] Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fictious

a. Fictitious. [ R. ] Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fictitious

a. [ L. fictitius. See Fiction. ] Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame. [ 1913 Webster ]

The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones. Pope.

-- Fic*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Fic*ti"tious*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fictive

a. [ Cf. F. fictif. ] Feigned; counterfeit. “The fount of fictive tears.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fictor

n. [ L. ] An artist who models or forms statues and reliefs in any plastic material. [ R. ] Elmes. [ 1913 Webster ]

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