1.1Relating to or denoting the imaginary characters and events found in fiction.
‘the people in this novel are fictitious; the background of public events is not’
‘The Curmudgeon is a satirical column based on fictitious characters in a mythical village.’
‘It is about a West Coast Rugby team full of larger than life fictitious characters.’
‘For the first time, the Indian Postal Services Department has issued a stamp on a fictitious character.’
‘This character could be fictitious and yet the story would have had the same powerful message.’
‘Spearman is a fictitious character, the hero of a series of murder mysteries written by Marshall Jevons.’
‘Even though the character is completely fictitious, it always retains some of the qualities of the player.’
‘Since this is a fictitious character, the authors depict him as they please.’
‘Our entirely fictitious character begins his work day, as many of us do, by opening his email client and checking for new messages.’
‘Memorials are built for great human beings and not for fictitious characters.’
‘It is about a West Coast Rugby team full of larger than life fictitious characters.’
‘I fused them into this fictitious character and improvised things about a second marriage my mother had.’
‘The process he describes is historical though the characters who bring the process to life are fictitious.’
‘Like the other expansion packs, there's a fictitious near-future story behind Thunder.’
‘The characters from the Dubois Chronicles are fictitious and are of my own creation.’
‘I always think it's kind of neat to take some past historical event and tweak it into a fictitious story.’
‘The actual events and people portrayed in Equivocal Death are entirely fictitious.’
‘It's crucial, nonetheless, to draw the distinction between fictitious creatures and real human beings.’
‘We spend a lot of time in this electronic community, but do we ever stop to think whether this community is real or fictitious?’
‘It is set in a fictitious women's college in a wholly real Oxford, where a poison pen is causing increasing alarm and distress among students and staff.’
‘It's a two-hour fictitious psychological thriller that has real elements to it.’