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 you're not going to get the real stuff
artificial, bogus, dummy, ersatz, fake, false, faux, imitation, imitative, man-made, mimic, mock, pretend, sham, simulated, substitute, synthetic
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
2
lacking in natural or spontaneous quality
- the factitious friendliness shown by the beauty-pageant contestants to one another
affected, artificial, assumed, bogus, contrived, fake, false, feigned, forced, mechanical, mock, phony (also phoney), plastic, pretended, pseudo, put-on, sham, simulated, spurious, strained, unnatural
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
authentic, bona fide, real, realistic, right, true
honest, ingenuous, sincere, unpretending
easy, effortless, smooth
extemporaneous, impromptu, impulsive, instinctive, unconscious, unprompted, unrehearsed, unstudied
