'Illusive' definitions:
Definition of 'illusive'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Based on or having the nature of an illusion; "illusive hopes of finding a better job"; "Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open decision that are staples of democracy" [syn: illusive, illusory]
Definition of 'Illusive'
From: GCIDE
- Illusive \Il*lu"sive\, a. [See Illude.] Deceiving by false show; deceitful; deceptive; false; illusory; unreal. [1913 Webster]
- Truth from illusive falsehood to command. --Thomson. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'illusive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- airy,
- apparent,
- apparently sound,
- apparitional,
- autistic,
- Barmecidal,
- Barmecide,
- beguiling,
- bewitching,
- casuistic,
- catchy,
- charming,
- chimeric,
- Circean,
- colorable,
- deceiving,
- deceptive,
- delusional,
- delusionary,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- dereistic,
- disingenuous,
- dreamlike,
- dreamy,
- dubious,
- empty,
- enchanting,
- entrancing,
- erroneous,
- fallacious,
- false,
- fantastic,
- fascinating,
- fishy,
- glamorous,
- hallucinatory,
- hollow,
- illusional,
- illusionary,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- insincere,
- jesuitic,
- misleading,
- ostensible,
- overrefined,
- oversubtle,
- phantasmagoric,
- phantasmal,
- phantom,
- philosophistic,
- plausible,
- questionable,
- seeming,
- self-deceptive,
- self-deluding,
- sophistic,
- sophistical,
- specious,
- spectral,
- spellbinding,
- supposititious,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- unactual,
- unfounded,
- unreal,
- unsubstantial,
- visionary,
- witching