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[syn: illusive, illusory]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Illusive \Il*lu"sive\, a. [See Illude.]
Deceiving by false show; deceitful; deceptive; false;
illusory; unreal.
[1913 Webster]
Truth from illusive falsehood to command. --Thomson.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
illusive
adj 1: 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" [syn: illusive, illusory]
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