mindmap root((虚构)) fictitious implies fabrication and suggests artificiality or contrivance more than deliberate falsification or deception: all names used in the broadcast are ~. fabulous stresses the marvelous or incredible character of something without necessarily implying impossibility or actual nonexistence: a land of ~ riches. legendary suggests the elaboration of invented details and distortion of historical facts produced by popular tradition: the ~ courtship of Miles Standish. mythical implies a fanciful explanation, often symbolic explanation of facts or the creation of beings or events: ~ creatures such as centaurs. apocryphal implies an unknown or dubious source or origin or may imply that the thing itself is dubious or inaccurate: a book that repeats many ~ stories.