'Delusive' definitions:
Definition of 'delusive'
From: WordNet
adjective
Inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes" [syn: delusive, false]
Definition of 'Delusive'
From: GCIDE
- Delusive \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. [1913 Webster]
- Delusive and unsubstantial ideas. --Whewell. -- {De*lu"sive*ly}, adv. -- {De*lu"sive*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'delusive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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