Illusive

3 definitions found

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

  Illusive \Il*lu"sive\, a. [See {Illude}.]
     Deceiving by false show; deceitful; deceptive; false;
     illusory; unreal.
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           Truth from illusive falsehood to command. --Thomson.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  illusive
       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: {illusory}]

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

  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