delusive as an adjective: - 1
delusive
adjective
1 delusive
Inappropriate to reality or facts:
— Delusive faith in a wonder drug.
— Delusive expectations.
synonym: false.
Roget 495:
erroneous,
untrue,
false,
devoid of truth,
fallacious,
apocryphal,
unreal,
ungrounded,
groundless;
unsubstantial
etc.
4;
heretical
etc.
(heterodox)
984;
unsound;
illogical
etc.
477.
inexact,
unexact inaccurate†,
incorrect;
indefinite
etc.
(uncertain)
475.
illusive,
illusory;
delusive;
mock,
ideal
etc.
(imaginary)
515;
spurious
etc.
545;
deceitful
etc.
544;
perverted.
controvertible,
unsustainable;
unauthenticated,
untrustworthy.
exploded,
refuted;
discarded.
in error,
under an error
etc.
n.;
mistaken
etc.
v.;
tripping
etc.
v.;
out,
out in one's reckoning;
aberrant;
beside the mark,
wide of the mark,
wide of the truth,
way off,
far off;
astray
etc.
(at fault)
475;
on a false scent,
on the wrong scent;
in the wrong box,
outside the ballpark;
at cross purposes,
all in the wrong;
all out.
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Roget 545:
deceived
etc.
v.;
deceiving
&c.;
cunning
etc.
702;
prestigious†,
prestigiatory†;
deceptive,
deceptious†;
deceitful,
covinous†;
delusive,
delusory;
illusive,
illusory;
elusive,
insidious,
ad captandum vulgus [Lat.].
untrue
etc.
546;
mock,
sham,
make-believe,
counterfeit,
snide [Slang],
pseudo,
spurious,
supposititious,
so-called,
pretended,
feigned,
trumped up,
bogus,
scamped,
fraudulent,
tricky,
factitious bastard;
surreptitious,
illegitimate,
contraband,
adulterated,
sophisticated;
unsound,
rotten at the core;
colorable;
disguised;
meretricious,
tinsel,
pinchbeck,
plated;
catchpenny;
Brummagem.
artificial,
synthetic,
ersatz [G.];
simulated
etc.
544.
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Polish: iluzoryczny, iluzyjny
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