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factitious

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of factitious

1 being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materials

  • presumably the statue is of factitious marble, because for that price youʼre not going to get the real stuff
Synonyms of factitious

artificial, bogus, dummy, ersatz, fake, false, faux, imitation, imitative, man-made, mimic, mock, pretend, sham, simulated, substitute, synthetic
Words Related to factitious

cultured, manufactured, process

unauthentic

adulterated, designer, doctored, engineered, fudged, juggled, manipulated, tampered (with)

concocted, fabricated

counterfeit, deceptive, forged, fraudulent, misleading, phony (also phoney)

affected, brummagem, feigned, pinchbeck, pseudo, spurious
Near Antonyms of factitious

authentic, bona fide, legitimate, true

premium, quality, valuable

pure, unadulterated
Antonyms of factitious

genuine, natural, real

2 lacking in natural or spontaneous quality

  • the factitious friendliness shown by the beauty-pageant contestants to one another
Synonyms of factitious

affected, artificial, assumed, bogus, contrived, fake, false, feigned, forced, mechanical, mock, phony (also phoney), plastic, pretended, pseudo, put-on, sham, simulated, spurious, strained, unnatural
Words Related to factitious

automatic, canned, concocted, fabricated, hokey, labored, manufactured, pat, unauthentic, unreal, unrealistic

double-dealing, empty, facile, hollow, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, two-faced, unctuous

exaggerated, histrionic, melodramatic, overacted, overdone, theatrical (also theatric)

cute, cutesy, genteel, goody-goody, mincing, overrefined, simpering

conventional, formal, impersonal, inflexible, rigid, stiff, stylized, wooden

artful, calculated, conscious, cultivated, deliberate, premeditated, studied
Near Antonyms of factitious

authentic, bona fide, real, realistic, right, true

honest, ingenuous, sincere, unpretending

easy, effortless, smooth

extemporaneous, impromptu, impulsive, instinctive, unconscious, unprompted, unrehearsed, unstudied
Antonyms of factitious

artless, genuine, natural, spontaneous, unaffected, uncontrived, unfeigned, unforced

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