Illusory

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Produced by, based on, or having the nature of an illusion; deceptive: "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” ( Tom Wicker).
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  • adj. Resulting from an illusion; deceptive, imaginary, unreal
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Deceiving, or tending of deceive; fallacious; illusive.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Causing illusion; deceiving or tending to deceive by false appearances; fallacious.
  • Synonyms Deceptive, delusive. See delusion.
  • n. An illusion; a cheat.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. based on or having the nature of an illusion
    • Equivalent
    unreal   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    fallacious    illusive    deceptive   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    chimerical    unreal    erroneous    fallacious    groundless   
     
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