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Synonyms for fictive


Grammar : Adj
Spell : fik-tiv
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɪk tɪv



Définition of fictive

  • adj fictitious
Example sentences :
  • Who knew of Ram-tah's fictive origin, or even of Ram-tah at all?
  • Extract from : « Bunker Bean » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • Its grossness must be transposed, as it were, to a fictive scale, a scale of fainter tints and generalized signs.
  • Extract from : « Picture and Text » by Henry James
  • She made even the true seem fictive, while Miriam's effort was to make the fictive true.
  • Extract from : « The Tragic Muse » by Henry James
  • If it can be made so much like a work of fiction that the subject sketched serves the purposes of a fictive hero, why then—maybe.
  • Extract from : « Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre » by Voltairine de Cleyre
  • Vanity is the fictive bond which links us to an imaginary exterior world.
  • Extract from : « Very Woman » by Remy de Gourmont
  • Lyon hoped for a letter recounting the fictive sequel; but apparently his brilliant sitter did not operate with the pen.
  • Extract from : « A London Life; The Patagonia; The Liar; Mrs. Temperly » by Henry James
  • In the first poem of the book, using the fictive 'he' as its subject, she indicates her attitude to that region beyond sense.
  • Extract from : « Studies of Contemporary Poets » by Mary C. Sturgeon
  • Falstaff ceases to be a fictive creation, or the mere dramatic representation of a type, and takes on a distinctive individuality.
  • Extract from : « Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 » by Arthur Acheson
  • I was for the time entirely the historian, with little time to dream of the fictive material with which my memory was filled.
  • Extract from : « A Daughter of the Middle Border » by Hamlin Garland

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