About The Word Delusive
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Delusive
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What's The Definition Of Delusive?
[adj] inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Delusive: false | unrealistic Related Terms | Find terms related to Delusive: aberrant | abroad | adrift | airy | all abroad | all off | all wrong | amiss | apparent | apparitional | askew | astray | at fault | autistic | awry | Barmecidal | Barmecide | 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 See Also | Delusive In Webster's Dictionary \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.
Delusive and unsubstantial ideas. --Whewell.
-- {De*lu"sive*ly}, adv. -- {De*lu"sive*ness}, n.
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