'Illusory' definitions:

Definition of 'illusory'

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 'Illusory'

From: GCIDE

Illusory \Il*lu"so*ry\, a. [Cf. F. illusore.] Deceiving, or tending of deceive; fallacious; illusive; as, illusory promises or hopes. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'illusory'

From: Moby Thesaurus

aberrant,
abroad,
adrift,
air-built,
airy,
all abroad,
all off,
all wrong,
amiss,
apparent,
apparitional,
askew,
astray,
at fault,
autistic,
awry,
Barmecidal,
Barmecide,
beguiling,
beside the mark,
bewitching,
catchy,
charming,
chimeric,
chimerical,
Circean,
cloud-built,
corrupt,
deceiving,
deceptive,
defective,
delusional,
delusionary,
delusive,
delusory,
dereistic,
deviant,
deviational,
deviative,
distorted,
dreamlike,
dreamy,
dubious,
enchanting,
entrancing,
errant,
erring,
erroneous,
ethereal,
fallacious,
false,
fancied,
fanciful,
fantastic,
fascinating,
fatuitous,
fatuous,
faultful,
faulty,
fictional,
fictive,
fishy,
flawed,
gaseous,
glamorous,
gossamery,
hallucinatory,
heretical,
heterodox,
illogical,
illusional,
illusionary,
illusive,
imaginary,
imaginational,
imagined,
immaterial,
merely nominal,
misleading,
mistaken,
nonexistent,
not real,
not right,
not true,
notional,
off,
off the track,
ostensible,
out,
peccant,
perverse,
perverted,
phantasmagoric,
phantasmal,
phantom,
phantomlike,
questionable,
rarefied,
seeming,
self-contradictory,
self-deceptive,
self-deluding,
shadowy,
specious,
spectral,
spellbinding,
spirituous,
straying,
subtile,
subtle,
supposititious,
tenuous,
trickish,
tricksy,
tricky,
unactual,
unfactual,
unfounded,
unorthodox,
unproved,
unreal,
unrealistic,
unsubstantial,
untrue,
vaporous,
visional,
visionary,
wide,
windy,
witching,
wrong