Illusive
[ɪ'l(j)uːsɪv] or [ɪ'lusɪv]
Definition
(adj.) based on or having the nature of an illusion; 'illusive hopes 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' .
Editor: Warren--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Deceiving by false show; deceitful; deceptive; false; illusory; unreal.
Checker: Trent
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Deceptive, deceitful, delusive, fallacious.
Typist: Vern
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Deceptive, vision_try, unreal, disappointing, fugitive, erroneous, false,imaginary, chimerical, delusive, illusory
ANT:Substantial, satisfactory, real, true, permanent, solid
Edited by Lester
Examples
- Miss Ophelia and the physician alone felt no encouragement from this illusive truce. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Volley after volley they vomited upon the temple guards; volley on volley crashed through the thin air toward the fleeting and illusive fliers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The world was all illusive. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- At that time, at eighteen, drawing near the confines of illusive, void dreams, Elf-land lies behind us, the shores of Reality rise in front. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And the greater the interval which separates them from philosophy and reason, the more strange and illusive will be the pleasure? Plato. The Republic.
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