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- [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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