pretended vs fictitious

pretended and fictitious both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pretended	No	Yes	No	No
fictitious	No	Yes	No	No

As adjectives, pretended and fictitious are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of pretended include assumed, false, fictive, put on, sham.

pretended (adjective)	fictitious (adjective)
adopted in order to deceive	adopted in order to deceive
	formed or conceived by the imagination