fictitious
fik-TISH-usadjMeaning made up; not real
Memory hook FICTION-ous: straight out of FICTION. A friendly dragon in Pip’s storybook flies over the castle. Fun to read about, but the dragon is fictitious: made up.
The detective in the mystery lives at a fictitious address that no mail carrier could ever find.
In context Although the town in the novel feels real, it is fictitious; the writer invented its streets, its shops and even its two-hundred-year history.
Similar imaginary, invented, made-up, false
Opposite real, factual, true
From Latin ficticius, “made up, artificial,” from fingere, “to shape, to invent,” the same source as fiction.