illusory

illusory
il·lu·so·ry /i-'lü-sə-rē, -zə-rē/ adj: likely to mislead or deceive: false deceptive
an illusory plea bargain leading to a longer sentence than expected

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. . 1996.

illusory
I adjective casuistic, casuistical, chimerical, conjuring, counterfeit, deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusive, fabricated, fallacious, false, falsus, fancied, fanciful, fatuitous, feigned, fictitious, hatched, illusive, imaginary, imagined, insidious, insubstantial, invented, make-believe, misleading, mythic, mythological, not true, notional, phantasmal, pretended, sophistic, sophistical, suppositional, tenuous, tricky, unactual, unauthentic, unreal, unsubstantial, unsupportable, vanus, visionary associated concepts: illusory agreement, illusory appointment, illusory contract, illusory promise, illusory transfer, illusory trust foreign phrases: Judicium non debet esse illusorlum; suum effectum habere debet A judgment ought not to be illusory; it ought to have its proper effect II index artificial, deceptive, delusive, fallacious, fictitious, insubstantial, nonexistent, ostensible, quixotic, specious, tenuous

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006


illusory
adj.
Not real; deceptive; having a false appearance.

The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. . 2008.


illusory
adj. Deceptive or insubstantial.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary. . 2000.

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  • Illusory — Il*lu so*ry, a. [Cf. F. illusore.] Deceiving, or tending of deceive; fallacious; illusive; as, illusory promises or hopes. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • illusory — (adj.) 1590s, from Fr. illusorie, from L.L. illusorius ironical, of a mocking character, from illus , pp. stem of L. illudere mock at, lit. to play with, from assimilated form of in at, upon (see IN (Cf. in ) (2)) + ludere to play (see LUDICRO …   Etymology dictionary

  • illusory — *apparent, seeming, ostensible Analogous words: chimerical, fanciful, visionary, imaginary, fantastic: delusory, delusive, *misleading, deceptive Antonyms: factual: matter of fact …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • illusory — / illusive [adj] deceptive, false apparent, blue sky*, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, delusory, fake, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, hallucinatory, ideal, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, pseudo*,… …   New thesaurus

  • illusory — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ apparently real but not actually so; deceptive. DERIVATIVES illusorily adverb …   English terms dictionary

  • illusory — [i lo͞o′sə rē, i lo͞o′zərē] adj. producing, based on, or having the nature of, illusion; deceptive; unreal; illusive illusorily adv. illusoriness n …   English World dictionary

  • illusory — /al(y)uwsariy/°uwz°/ Deceiving by false appearances; nominal, as distinguished from substantial; fallacious; illusive. Bolles v. Toledo Trust Co., 144 Ohio St. 195, 58 N.E.2d 381, 390 @ illusory appointment Nominal, overly restrictive or… …   Black's law dictionary

  • illusory — /al(y)uwsariy/°uwz°/ Deceiving by false appearances; nominal, as distinguished from substantial; fallacious; illusive. Bolles v. Toledo Trust Co., 144 Ohio St. 195, 58 N.E.2d 381, 390 @ illusory appointment Nominal, overly restrictive or… …   Black's law dictionary

  • illusory — [[t]ɪlu͟ːzəri, səri[/t]] ADJ GRADED If you describe something as illusory, you mean that although it seems true or possible, it is in fact false or impossible. Universalists argue that freedom is illusory. ...the illusory nature of nationhood …   English dictionary

  • illusory — elusive, illusory The confusion here has been greatly reduced by the virtual disappearance from the scene of the forms elusory and illusive. This leaves elusive as the adjective from elude, meaning ‘difficult to grasp (physically or mentally)’,… …   Modern English usage

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