fictive

Other forms of fictive

comparative

fictiver·

superlative

fictivest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fictive

What does fictive mean?

fictive means "adopted in order to deceive". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fictive?

fictive has 2 syllables: fic-tive. The stress falls on "fic".

What is another word for fictive?

Close synonyms include assumed, false, fictitious, pretended, put on. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fictive a common word?

fictive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.