Definitions for fictive

fictive fic·tive

Spelling: [fik-tiv]
IPA: /ˈfɪk tɪv/

Fictive is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in fictive (cefiitv).

Definitions for fictive

adjective

  1. fictitious; imaginary.
  2. pertaining to the creation of fiction:

Origin of fictive

First recorded in 1485-95; fict(ion) + -ive

Examples for fictive

Lyon hoped for a letter recounting the fictive sequel; but apparently his brilliant sitter did not operate with the pen.

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.

My goal (not my achievement, my goal) was to work like Joan Didion in a fictive realm.

In the first poem of the book, using the fictive 'he' as its subject, she indicates her attitude to that region beyond sense.

She made even the true seem fictive, while Miriam's effort was to make the fictive true.

Vanity is the fictive bond which links us to an imaginary exterior world.

Who knew of Ram-tah's fictive origin, or even of Ram-tah at all?

I was for the time entirely the historian, with little time to dream of the fictive material with which my memory was filled.

Falstaff ceases to be a fictive creation, or the mere dramatic representation of a type, and takes on a distinctive individuality.

Its grossness must be transposed, as it were, to a fictive scale, a scale of fainter tints and generalized signs.

Word Value for fictive
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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