Illusory \Il*lu"so*ry\, a. [Cf. F. illusore.]
Deceiving, or tending of deceive; fallacious; illusive; as,
illusory promises or hopes.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
illusory
adj : based on or having the nature of an illusion; "illusive
hopes of of finding a better job"; "Secret activities
offer presidents the alluring but often illusory
promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals
without the bothersome debate and open decision that
are staples of democracy" [syn: illusive]
WordNet (r) 2.0
131 Moby Thesaurus words for "illusory":
Barmecidal, Barmecide, Circean, aberrant, abroad, adrift,
air-built, airy, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, apparent,
apparitional, askew, astray, at fault, autistic, awry, beguiling,
beside the mark, bewitching, catchy, charming, chimeric,
chimerical, cloud-built, corrupt, deceiving, deceptive, defective,
delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, deviant,
deviational, deviative, distorted, dreamlike, dreamy, dubious,
enchanting, entrancing, errant, erring, erroneous, ethereal,
fallacious, false, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fascinating,
fatuitous, fatuous, faultful, faulty, fictional, fictive, fishy,
flawed, gaseous, glamorous, gossamery, hallucinatory, heretical,
heterodox, illogical, illusional, illusionary, illusive, imaginary,
imaginational, imagined, immaterial, merely nominal, misleading,
mistaken, nonexistent, not real, not right, not true, notional,
off, off the track, ostensible, out, peccant, perverse, perverted,
phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, phantomlike, questionable,
rarefied, seeming, self-contradictory, self-deceptive,
self-deluding, shadowy, specious, spectral, spellbinding,
spirituous, straying, subtile, subtle, supposititious, tenuous,
trickish, tricksy, tricky, unactual, unfactual, unfounded,
unorthodox, unproved, unreal, unrealistic, unsubstantial, untrue,
vaporous, visional, visionary, wide, windy, witching, wrong
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
illusive
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