noun
Meaning 1
A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- a figment of one's imagination
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
figment
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American, UK: /ˈfɪɡ.mənt/
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noun
Meaning 2
An item which has been crafted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a contrived or fantastic idea
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a figment of the imagination
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: idea, thought
History
Etymology
From Late Latin figmentum (“anything made, a fiction”), from fingō (“make, form, feign”); see fiction, feign, feint.
Across languages
Translations
47 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: ֆիկցիա (fikcʻia) — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Bulgarian: измислица (izmislica) — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Catalan: quimera — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Catalan: fantasia — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Catalan: invent — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Dutch: verzinsel — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Dutch: droom — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Dutch: bedenksel — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Finnish: kuvitelma — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- French: chimère — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- French: illusion — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- French: vaticination — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- French: vue de l'esprit — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- French: déconnage — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- French: fiction — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- French: utopie — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- French: divagation — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- French: rêve — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- French: rêvasserie — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- French: fantasmagorie — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- French: roman — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- German: Hirngespinst — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- German: Fantasieprodukt — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- German: Erfindung — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Greek: αποκύημα (apokýima) — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Ancient Greek: πλάσμα (plásma) — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Hungarian: szülött — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Hungarian: kitaláció — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Hungarian: koholmány — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Russian: вы́думка (výdumka) — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Russian: вы́мысел (výmysel) — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Russian: до́мысел (dómysel) — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Russian: ложь (ložʹ) — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Russian: фи́кция (fíkcija) — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Russian: плод фантазии — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Spanish: quimera — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Spanish: espejismo — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Spanish: ensueño — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Spanish: ficción — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Spanish: producto — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Spanish: ilusión — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Spanish: invento — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Spanish: hircocervo — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Spanish: superchería — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Spanish: abulencia — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Swedish: påfund — fabrication, fantasy, invention
- Swedish: påhitt — fabrication, fantasy, invention