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Synonyms for illusive

  • adjective

Most common

unreal illusory chimerical delusive

All synonyms

Adjective

illusory, unreal, delusive, chimerical, imaginary, deceptive, false, misleading, fantastic, visionary, erroneous, fallacious, dreamy, fanciful, deceitful

Antonyms

real

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Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Subject to or pertaining to an illusion, often used in the sense of an unrealistic expectation or an unreachable goal or outcome.

    Testing software completely is an illusive goal.

Example sentences

  • unreal I find the concept of Globish restrictive and unreal.
  • illusory The difference between being and non-being is illusory.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
illusivesteady
unrealsteady
illusorysteady
chimericalsteady
delusivefalling

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

5 letters
false1
6 letters
unreal2, dreamy2
8 letters
fanciful3, illusory4, delusive
9 letters
fantastic3, imaginary5, visionary4, deceptive3, erroneous4, deceitful3
10 letters
misleading3, fallacious3, chimerical4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (unreal2 = 2 syllables).