factitious

Speech parts

1. factitious - Adjective

2. factitious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

unnatural pinchbeck forced unreal make-believe affected assumed false manufactured plastic artificial synthetic substitute fake imitation
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Antonyms

amen right case natural real true
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Phrases with the word

factitious disease of the lungs

Examples

The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours. Jean-Baptiste Say

Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must. Victor Hugo

Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. Henry David Thoreau

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life? Paul Cézanne

The antagonism between science and religion, about which we hear so much, appears to me to be purely factitious. Thomas Henry Huxley

We can be fervent in our disagreements without being factitious with our beliefs. Emanuel Cleaver

Close letter words and terms

factis factish factitial factitious disease of the lungs factitiously factitiousness