Dictionary Definition
illusory 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:
illusive]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
(US) IPA: /ɪˈluːzəri/Adjective
Translations
illusory
- French: illusoire
- German: illusorisch
- Greek: απατηλός
- Italian: illusorio
- Latin: illusorius
- Portuguese: ilusório
- Romanian: iluzoriu
- Spanish: ilusorio
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Barmecidal, Barmecide, Circean, aberrant, abroad, adrift, air-built, airy, all abroad, all off, all
wrong, amiss, apparent, apparitional, askew, astray, at fault, autistic, awry, beguiling, beside the mark,
bewitching, catchy, charming, chimeric, chimerical, cloud-built,
corrupt, deceiving, deceptive, defective, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, deviant, deviational, deviative, distorted, dreamlike, dreamy, dubious, enchanting, entrancing, errant, erring, erroneous, ethereal, fallacious, false, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fascinating, fatuitous, fatuous, faultful, faulty, fictional, fictive, fishy, flawed, gaseous, glamorous, gossamery, hallucinatory, heretical, heterodox, illogical, illusional, illusionary, illusive, imaginary, imaginational, imagined, immaterial, merely nominal,
misleading, mistaken, nonexistent, not real, not
right, not true, notional, off, off the track, ostensible, out, peccant, perverse, perverted, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, phantomlike, questionable, rarefied, seeming, self-contradictory,
self-deceptive, self-deluding, shadowy, specious, spectral, spellbinding, spirituous, straying, subtile, subtle, supposititious, tenuous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, unactual, unfactual, unfounded, unorthodox, unproved, unreal, unrealistic, unsubstantial, untrue, vaporous, visional, visionary, wide, windy, witching, wrong