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deceptive, delusive, fallacious, fictitious, illusory, insubstantial, ostensible, specious, subtle (insidious), untrustworthy
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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] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
illusive — (adj.) deceptive, illusory, formed in English 1670s, from stem of ILLUSION (Cf. illusion) + IVE (Cf. ive); Cf. also ILLUSORY (Cf. illusory) … Etymology dictionary
illusive — illusive, illusory see elusive … Modern English usage
illusive — [i lo͞o′siv] adj. illusory; unreal illusively adv. illusiveness n … English World dictionary
illusive — adjective Subject to or pertaining to an illusion, often used in the sense of an unrealistic expectation or an unreachable goal or outcome. Testing software completely is an illusive goal. Syn: illusory … Wiktionary
illusive — 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,… … New thesaurus
illusive — adjective Date: 1606 illusory • illusively adverb • illusiveness noun … New Collegiate Dictionary
illusive — illusively, adv. illusiveness, n. /i looh siv/, adj. illusory. [1670 80; ILLUS(ORY) + IVE] * * * … Universalium
illusive — Synonyms and related words: Barmecidal, Barmecide, Circean, airy, apparent, apparently sound, apparitional, autistic, beguiling, bewitching, casuistic, catchy, charming, chimeric, colorable, deceiving, deceptive, delusional, delusionary, delusive … Moby Thesaurus
illusive — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Of, relating to, or in the nature of an illusion; lacking reality: chimeric, chimerical, delusive, delusory, dreamlike, hallucinatory, illusory, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantasmic, visionary. See REAL. 2.… … English dictionary for students
