[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

illusive \illu"sive\, a. see illude.
   deceiving by false show; deceitful; deceptive; false;
   illusory; unreal.
   1913 webster

         truth from illusive falsehood to command. --thomson.
   1913 webster
see also:
illude 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
see also:
illusory 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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