Delusive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Delusive \De*lu"sive\, a. [See {Delude}.]
     Apt or fitted to delude; tending to mislead the mind;
     deceptive; beguiling; delusory; as, delusive arts; a delusive
     dream.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           Delusive and unsubstantial ideas.        --Whewell.
     -- {De*lu"sive*ly}, adv. -- {De*lu"sive*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  delusive
       adj : inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a
             wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes"
             [syn: {false}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  95 Moby Thesaurus words for "delusive":
     Barmecidal, Barmecide, aberrant, abroad, adrift, airy, all abroad,
     all off, all wrong, amiss, apparent, apparitional, askew, astray,
     at fault, autistic, awry, beguiling, beside the mark, catchy,
     chimeric, chimerical, corrupt, deceiving, deceptive, defective,
     deluding, delusional, delusionary, delusory, dereistic, deviant,
     deviational, deviative, distorted, dreamlike, dreamy, dubious,
     errant, erring, erroneous, fallacious, false, fanciful, fantastic,
     faultful, faulty, fishy, flawed, hallucinatory, heretical,
     heterodox, illogical, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory,
     imaginary, misleading, not right, not true, off, off the track,
     ostensible, out, peccant, perverse, perverted, phantasmagoric,
     phantasmal, phantom, questionable, quixotic, seeming,
     self-contradictory, self-deceptive, self-deluding, specious,
     spectral, straying, supposititious, trickish, tricksy, tricky,
     unactual, unfactual, unfounded, unorthodox, unproved, unreal,
     unsubstantial, untrue, visionary, wide, wrong