-itious

Usage

• factitious

  Something factitious is not genuine or natural; it is made to happen in a forced, artificial way.

• adventitious

  Something that happens unexpectedly and by chance that is not inherent or natural to a given item or situation is adventitious, such as a root appearing in an unusual place on a plant.

• surreptitious

  A surreptitious deed is done secretly to avoid bringing any attention to it.

• fictitious

  formed or conceived by the imagination