Illusive \Il*lu"sive\, a. [See Illude.]
Deceiving by false show; deceitful; deceptive; false;
illusory; unreal.
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Truth from illusive falsehood to command. --Thomson.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
illusive
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: illusory]
WordNet (r) 2.0
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "illusive":
Barmecidal, Barmecide, Circean, airy, apparent, apparently sound,
apparitional, autistic, beguiling, bewitching, casuistic, catchy,
charming, chimeric, colorable, deceiving, deceptive, delusional,
delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, disingenuous,
dreamlike, dreamy, dubious, empty, enchanting, entrancing,
erroneous, fallacious, false, fantastic, fascinating, fishy,
glamorous, hallucinatory, hollow, illusional, illusionary,
illusory, imaginary, insincere, jesuitic, misleading, ostensible,
overrefined, oversubtle, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom,
philosophistic, plausible, questionable, seeming, self-deceptive,
self-deluding, sophistic, sophistical, specious, spectral,
spellbinding, supposititious, trickish, tricksy, tricky, unactual,
unfounded, unreal, unsubstantial, visionary, witching
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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