delusive
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8.1
- adjective
- /dɪˈluːsɪv/
:
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- After months of searching, she realized that her dreams of becoming a celebrity were nothing but delusive fantasies.
- self-delusive
It is no more than The Dark Knight and self delusive rapture of consciousness.
- It is no more than The Dark Knight and self delusive rapture of consciousness.
Examples
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Even Yeats, Eliot, and Pound themselves, in the modernist twilight of the late thirties and after, may have seen molarity as a delusive and impossible goal.
Academic text (2001) -
We've no more to hold against you than we would against someone you'd led around by the nose; you're both victims of a delusive belief system.
Fiction book (1995) -
I closed Boy Dog's unblinking eyes and checked his mouth while my wife rearranged his position in a delusive attempt to make him more comfortable.
Fiction book (1999) -
A delusive smoke she was, or a most deceptive mirage, or lightness disincarnate.
Fiction book (1998) -
This is the delusive self-worship, the transcendentalist idolatry that evaporates when Orgon emerges from under the table.
Academic text (1990) -
Many investors fell for the delusive promise of quick profits in the unstable market.
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The magician's delusive tricks left the audience wondering how he performed such impossible feats.
Synonyms
715
1.0
Not true or correct
62
5.3
Appearing true but making someone believe something that is not true
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8.0
Giving a false idea that something is true
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9.1
Giving a false idea that makes people believe something untrue
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8.2
Appearing real but not actually true
Antonyms
How Deceptive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word delusive comes from the old Latin deludere, built from de- 'away' and ludere 'to play', and is the same root as delude. So something delusive is like a trick or 'play' that gives a false or misleading impression.