delusory

de·lu·so·ry

 (dĭ-lo͞o′sə-rē, -zə-)

adj.

Tending to deceive; delusive.

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Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

delusory - causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure" deceptive unreal - not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary; "this conversation is getting more and more unreal"; "the fantastically unreal world of government bureaucracy"; "the unreal world of advertising art"

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delusory

adjective

1. Tending to deceive; of the nature of an illusion:

delusive, illusive, illusory.

2. Tending to lead one into error:

deceptive, delusive, fallacious, illusive, illusory, misleading.

3. Of, relating to, or in the nature of an illusion; lacking reality:

chimeric, chimerical, delusive, dreamlike, hallucinatory, illusive, illusory, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantasmic, visionary.

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