Word Meanings - ILLUSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Deceiving by false show; deceitful; deceptive; false; illusory; unreal. Truth from illusive falsehood to command. Thomson.
Related words: (words related to ILLUSIVE)
- 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 - TRUTHY
Truthful; likely; probable. "A more truthy import." W. G. Palgrave. - COMMANDING
1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn. - FALSE-FACED
Hypocritical. Shak. - ILLUSIVENESS
The quality of being illusive; deceptiveness; false show. - ILLUSIVELY
In a illusive manner; falsely. - COMMANDATORY
Mandatory; as, commandatory authority. - 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. - COMMANDO
In South Africa, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a hundred Boers. The war bands, called commandos, have played a great part in the . . . military history of the country. James Bryce. - DECEITFUL
Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak. - TRUTHLESS
Devoid of truth; dishonest; dishonest; spurious; faithless. -- Truth"less*ness, n. - ILLUSORY
Deceiving, or tending of deceive; fallacious; illusive; as, illusory promises or hopes. - UNREALLY
In an unreal manner; ideally. - THOMSONIANISM
An empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts. - TRUTH-LOVER
One who loves the truth. Truth-lover was our English Duke. Tennyson. - COMMANDEER
To compel to perform military service; to seize for military purposes; -- orig. used of the Boers. 2. To take arbitrary or forcible possession of. - COMMANDMENT
One of the ten laws or precepts given by God to the Israelites at Mount Sinai. 3. The act of commanding; exercise of authority. And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment. Shak. (more info) 1. An order or injunction given - UNREALIZE
To make unreal; to idealize. His fancy . . . unrealizes everything at a touch. Lowell. - COMMANDINGLY
In a commanding manner. - COMMANDABLE
Capable of being commanded. - UNDECEIVE
To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.