Question

Sherlock Holmes is a fictitious character.
Choose the word/ phrase which is opposite in meaning to the italicized bold word/phrase in the sentence.
A) Real
B) Imaginative
C) Fancy
D) Foreign

Answer 1

Hint: In the above question we have to identify the word from the given options: what is the opposite of the word ‘fictitious’ in the given sentence. Fictitious means something which is not real; imaginary; cooked up; false; something in the head.

Complete answer:
Let us first try to understand the meaning of the given options:
A) Real: Something that exists for real; something that is not imaginary or cooked up or in the head; something which is true for all. For e.g. Good people exist for real.
B) Imaginative: Someone who displays the traits of imagination and creativity, who can create new/creative/innovative things through his/her thinking. For e.g. He is the most imaginative student of the class.
C) Fancy: To imagine something that one would like to buy or do; something which is not ordinary; to imagine something/someone in a way people like them to be. For e.g. They have a fancy collection of cars.
D) Foreign: Belonging to a place that is not domestic; something that involves other countries. For e.g. I will be pursuing my higher studies in foreign.

The word which is opposite to “Fictitious” is Real.
It is so because fictitious means something unreal whereas real means something that is not in the head but exists in reality. Therefore, the sentence can be rewritten as ‘Sherlock Holmes is a real character.’
Therefore the correct answer is option ‘B’.

Note: Adjectives are the words that tell us about the quantity or quality of a noun or pronoun. Real, Imaginative, foreign and fictitious all are adjectives because they talk about the traits of something. For e.g. The gem is real. The characters of the story are fictitious.