Meaning of DELUSIVE
| Pronunciation: | | di'loosiv
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| | Definition: | | [adj] inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes" |
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| | Synonyms: | | false, unrealistic |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \De*lu"sive\, a. [See {Delude}.]
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.
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| | Related Terms: | | aberrant, abroad, adrift, airy, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, apparent, apparitional, askew, astray, at fault, autistic, awry, Barmecidal, Barmecide, beguiling, beside the mark, catchy, chimeric, chimerical, corrupt, deceiving, deceptive, defective, deluding, delusional, delusionary, delusory, dereistic, deviant, deviational, deviative, distorted, dreamlike, dreamy, dubious, errant, erring, erroneous, fallacious, false, fanciful, fantastic, faultful, faulty, fishy, flawed, hallucinatory, heretical, heterodox, illogical, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, misleading, not right, not true, off, off the track, ostensible, out, peccant, perverse, perverted, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, questionable, quixotic, seeming, self-contradictory, self-deceptive, self-deluding, specious, spectral, straying, supposititious, trickish, tricksy, tricky, unactual, unfactual, unfounded, unorthodox, unproved, unreal, unsubstantial, untrue, visionary, wide, wrong |
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