illusory

Speech parts

1. illusory - Adjective

2. illusory - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Deceiving, or tending of deceive; fallacious; illusive; as, illusory promises or hopes.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

illusive phantom Potemkin mirage fantastic unreal make-believe ideal apparent false fictional spectral imaginary fake hypothetical
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Antonyms

good real true simple effective actual
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Related terms

illusive illusion illusionary

Phrases with the word

illusory world illusory pictures illusory face illusory life

Examples

illusive hopes of finding a better job Source: Internet

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 Source: Internet

"Actual harm inflicted on your body can't even compare with the other party's illusory fame and power." Source: Internet

Daniel Cozort explains that ’pho-ba (phowa) merely separates the coarse and subtle bodies without leading to the attainment of an “illusory body” (Tib. Source: Internet

Detail from The School of Athens by Raphael The section known as "the way of truth" discusses that which is real and contrasts with the argument in the section called "the way of opinion," which discusses that which is illusory. Source: Internet

For example, Situationist International maintains that free time is illusory and rarely fully "free"; economic and social forces appropriate free time from the individual and sell it back to them as the commodity known as "leisure". Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

illusiveness illusorily illusoriness illusory face illusory life illusory pictures