Factitious is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FACTITIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• contrived, artificial
• artificially created or developed
• 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.
• not produced by natural forces
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• produced by humans rather than by natural forces

Words related to FACTITIOUS

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Words that contain FACTITIOUS

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How to use FACTITIOUS in a sentence

• But this feeling, if it be more than slight and transient, if it seriously influence our conduct, is somewhat factitious or somewhat morbid.
• Courage in me could be only factitious, unnatural, useless.
• Here all is clearly made out with strokes of the pencil, by fair, not by factitious means.
• She realized afterward that there had been something factitious about her tranquillity.
• This is what had become of the factitious and ephemeral unity of that Empire of the West which Charlemagne had wished to put in the place of the Roman empire.
• The worst that can be said of them is that their inspiration was factitious, and that their motives had been handled better in the age of Greek sincerity.
• They could have no relation but to factitious rules of decorum.
• Factitious or morbid opinion often gives seeming value to things that have scarcely any.
• When she turned once more into the street, she had already set herself gravely, with a strange and factitious composure, to face her life.
• What is Glass? A transparent, solid, brittle, factitious body, produced by fusing sand with an alkali.
• What is Brass? A factitious metal, consisting of copper and zinc.
• Sweep away their gossamer fabrics of factitious religion, and they would catch no more flies.
• He left the impression, however, of a man whose natural powers were checked by a trained and factitious deference to the rank of those with whom he associated.
• We are not, then, to make a factitious differentiation of set purpose in the interests of society and to the detriment of individuals.
• Before he could face life again, he felt, he had to build up about him the sustaining fabric of some new and factitious faith.
• What a chain of miserable, tame, factitious sensations seemed the whole course of his past existence.
• You will ask what my purpose was in cultivating this factitious despondency.
• I certainly here feel myself delivered from the danger of factitious sin.
• It goes so far that we are tempted at times to think of it as a factitious gloom.
• The crowded and factitious gaiety of the place actually annoyed him.
• Its romantic side has made it familiar to all Americans, and given it a factitious importance.
• Yet I do not remember a stronger conviction of the superiority enjoyed by true over factitious greatness, than that which flashed on my mind, when I was told this fact.
• And to my mind, all discussion about Good is for this reason rather factitious and unreal.
• The form will seem from this point of view something factitious and artificial given to the stuff, not indeed by themselves, but by one like themselves, and in their interest.
• If he had emerged from among the laurestines, depressed, and vainly struggling for a factitious cheerfulness, I think I could have understood it.
• In an article in the first number of this magazine, the financial fluctuations in this country are ascribed to the alternate inflation and collapse of our factitious paper-money.
• Prohack immensely, and caused him to see that the romance of Frinton was neither factitious nor at an end.
• Their eminence would indeed have been factitious and their station undeserved if they were not able to see and do what was requisite better than the community at large.
• They are factitious forms, showy spectacles, glittering effigies.
• For his own soothing he kept up a factitious belief in her.

Similar words containing FACTITIOU without suffix s

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