Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Illusory.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Deceiving by illusion; deceitful; false; illusory.
Wiktionary
- adj. Subject to or pertaining to an illusion, often used in the sense of an unrealistic expectation or an unreachable goal or outcome.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Deceiving by false show; deceitful; deceptive; false; illusory; unreal.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. based on or having the nature of an illusion
Etymologies
- illusion + -ive (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Besides all this, they are exceedingly valuable as providing us with that general sense of religion, vague and illusive, which is deeper than all dogma.”
“PS -- Yes, it's supposed to be "illusive" as in "illusory," as opposed to”
“Worse, panelists seemed at a loss in terms of how to better grasp or measure engagement, which is a notoriously "illusive" concept, said Charley Shoemaker, director of video measurement products at Nielsen Online.”
“But all this I conjecture only, from sensations which may be nervously illusive.”
“Luck -- that strange, illusive, heaven sent, burst of good fortune-has not fired a missile in your direction.”
The Huffington Post: Warren Adler: On Rejection and Renewal: A Note to Aspiring Novelists
“The first ST film I actually saw in the theatre was The Voyage Home and it was no small feat mind you since Star Trek was as illusive in my native Poland back then as tropical fruit.”
“So, depending solely upon the illusive "fair market value," the exact same program can appear to be very cost efficient (8.3 percent), horribly inefficient (64.5 percent), or about average (15.4 percent).”
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“Massage works to strengthen that ever-illusive, fast-disappearing key to youth and firmness: collagen.”
“Patkin sees the three as fundamentally rooted in the illusive vocabulary of our religious doctrines: monotheistic, iconic and pagan.”
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“But her allusive work seems to evoke something beyond the ostensible subject, an illusive otherness that seems to be a hybrid of the subtly absurd and the almost spiritual.”
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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fifi
verbs Adj Adv noun
indulge, convene, solve, dissolve, prospect, prospective, allege, resolve, accountable, administration, amid, agenda and 407 more...
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Not Quite The Real Thang
masquerade, sham, counterfeit, shyster, phoney, bogus, pseudo, artificial, fabricated, mock, concocted, false and 158 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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Favorites
quietus, guileless, clandestine, chaos, surreal, sane, flaw, flawless, shards, lull, reflect, feign and 46 more...
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rajanibachchewar
detour, peculiar, replete, censure, criticize, malaise, cradle, rockers, procerity, demented, Goddard, disengage and 20 more...
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dogfish's Words
somnambulist, pulchritude, serpentine, awkward, ambulatory, arsenic, firmament, meretricious, snarky, casuistry, spinal, ephemeral and 78 more...
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The second sentence of a novel
"The second sentence of a novel" is a poem by lcmt
Two lighthouses, armed with the purposes of angels and the voices of monsters, bellowed from the yellow-smudged corners of the (pick ...incomprehensible, dissemble, black varnish, hoopskirt, sawtooth, furtive, clandestine, erratic, lost, elusive, illusive, inaccessible
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set 6
part two of set 3
aegis, diffidence, dilatory, quiescent, manumit, interdict, garrulous, fancier, effusion, clamber, fulminate, levee and 71 more...
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