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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. based on or having the nature of an illusion;
- Example: "illusive hopes of finding a better job"
- Example: "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]


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. [1913 Webster]
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