Illusory

3 definitions found

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

  Illusory \Il*lu"so*ry\, a. [Cf. F. illusore.]
     Deceiving, or tending of deceive; fallacious; illusive; as,
     illusory promises or hopes.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  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}]

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

  131 Moby Thesaurus words for "illusory":
     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