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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Produced by, based on, or having the nature of an illusion; deceptive: "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” ( Tom Wicker).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Causing illusion; deceiving or tending to deceive by false appearances; fallacious.
  2. Synonyms Deceptive, delusive. See delusion.
  3. n. An illusion; a cheat.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Resulting from an illusion; deceptive, imaginary, unreal

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Deceiving, or tending of deceive; fallacious; illusive.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. based on or having the nature of an illusion

Examples

  • “Instead of entering into an intermediate state, the yogi rises from the death state in what we call an illusory body, in place of the intermediate state.”

    Simon & Schuster: Mind Of Clear Light

  • “Another word in Professor Daly's lexicon is "foreground," which she defines as the illusory reality established over the centuries within a male-dominated, hierarchical culture bent on destroying women, animals and the earth.”

    BlogHer

  • “As I recall, we could hear him smacking his lips in illusory ecstasy, even from the back seat.”

    SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 609

  • “And the SEC says Dell consistently misrepresented how it has generated consistent growth numbers resulting in illusory stock values that made possible Michael Dell's astronomical stock option gains.”

    Forbes: Stark Lessons From The Dell Fraud Case

  • “Trevelyan masterfully depicts Marlborough's campaigns, but in illusory power it is doubtful that Churchill's historic battle scenes can be surpassed.”

    Nobel Prize in Literature 1953 - Presentation Speech

  • “At the end of the day, there is a short-term illusory benefit from having fewer shares in issue.”

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News

  • “If we give up some short-term illusory growth as a side effect of curtailing their activities, this is a small price to pay.”

    NYT > Home Page

  • “Senior cabinet ministers ridiculed such efficiency savings as "illusory" - and angered some of the businessmen involved by accusing them of being fooled by "flimsy advice" and a Tory”

    Evening Standard - Home

  • “But the benefits of this have proven to be largely 'illusory' - given the £150bn of losses banks are likely to suffer thanks to the current meltdown, the report claims.”

    This is Money | Home

  • “This is known as the illusory dance of forms and emptiness, or the inseparability of awareness and the shining void.”

    The Huffington Post: Who and What Is Buddha, Really?

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  • reesetee They might also be merely players. ;-) Nov 29, 2007

  • singlepayernow all the world is a stage and the people within it, nothing but actors
    -hamlet Nov 29, 2007

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