About The Word Illusive

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Illusive

Illusive Meaning & Definition
Illusive Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of 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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Illusive: illusory | unreal

Related Terms | Find terms related to Illusive: airy | apparent | apparently sound | apparitional | autistic | Barmecidal | Barmecide | beguiling | bewitching | casuistic | catchy | charming | chimeric | Circean | 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

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Illusive In Webster's Dictionary

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

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