Word Meanings - DELUSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DELUSIVE)

• Deceitful
• Deceptive
• delusive
• fraudulent
• fallacious
• Illusive
• vision try
• unreal
• disappointing
• fugitive
• erroneous
• false
• imaginary
• chimerical
• illusory

Related words: (words related to DELUSIVE)

• FUGITIVELY
  In a fugitive manner.
• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• VISIONARY
  1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given
• IMAGINARY
  Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures Addison. Imaginary calculus See under Calculus. -- Imaginary expression or quantity
• FALSE-FACED
  Hypocritical. Shak.
• ILLUSIVENESS
  The quality of being illusive; deceptiveness; false show.
• CHIMERICAL
  Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects. Syn. -- Imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wild; unfounded; vain; deceitful; delusive.
• ILLUSIVELY
  In a illusive manner; falsely.
• ERRONEOUS
  1. Wandering; straying; deviating from the right course; -- hence, irregular; unnatural. "Erroneous circulation." Arbuthnot. Stopped much of the erroneous light, which otherwise would have disturbed the vision. Sir I. Newman. 2. Misleading;
• FALSETTO
  A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
• DELUSIVE
  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.
• DECEITFUL
  Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak.
• VISION
  The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve. 3. That
• VISIONARINESS
  The quality or state of being visionary.
• ILLUSORY
  Deceiving, or tending of deceive; fallacious; illusive; as, illusory promises or hopes.
• UNREALLY
  In an unreal manner; ideally.
• UNREALIZE
  To make unreal; to idealize. His fancy . . . unrealizes everything at a touch. Lowell.
• CHIMERICALLY
  Wildy; vainly; fancifully.
• VISIONLESS
  Destitute of vision; sightless.
• UNREAL
  Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• PROVISIONARY
  Provisional. Burke.
• PROVISIONAL
  Of the nature of a provision; serving as a provision for the time being; -- used of partial or temporary arrangements; as, a provisional government; a provisional treaty.
• INVISION
  Want of vision or of the power of seeing. Sir T. Browne.
• IMPROVISION
  Improvidence. Sir T. Browne.