supposititious
[adjective]
Synonyms: illegitimate, baseborn, bastard, fatherless, misbegotten, natural, spurious, unfathered, fictitious, chimerical, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, fictive, illusory, imaginary, suppositious, unreal, supposed, conjectural, hypothetical, putative, reputed, suppositional, suppositive, suppository

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supposititious adjective. [sǝpɒzɪ'tɪʃǝs] E17.
[Latin supposititius, -icius, from supposit-: see SUPPOSITION, -ITIOUS¹.]
1. Fraudulently substituted for the genuine thing or person; spurious, counterfeit, false. E17.
b. spec. Of a child: set up to displace the real heir or successor; occas., illegitimate. E17.

2. Pretended or imagined to exist; feigned, fictitious; imaginary. E17-L18.

3. = SUPPOSITIOUS adjective 2. L17.

■ supposititiously adverb E17.

■ supposititiousness noun M17.

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