- illusive
- adjective Date: 1606 illusory • illusively adverb • illusiveness noun
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
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Illusive — Il*lu sive, a. [See {Illude}.] Deceiving by false show; deceitful; deceptive; false; illusory; unreal. [1913 Webster] Truth from illusive falsehood to command. Thomson. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
illusive — index deceptive, delusive, fallacious, fictitious, illusory, insubstantial, ostensible, specious, subtle … Law dictionary
illusive — (adj.) deceptive, illusory, formed in English 1670s, from stem of ILLUSION (Cf. illusion) + IVE (Cf. ive); Cf. also ILLUSORY (Cf. illusory) … Etymology dictionary
illusive — illusive, illusory see elusive … Modern English usage
illusive — [i lo͞o′siv] adj. illusory; unreal illusively adv. illusiveness n … English World dictionary
illusive — adjective 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. Syn: illusory … Wiktionary
illusive — illusory / illusive [adj] deceptive, false apparent, blue sky*, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, delusory, fake, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, hallucinatory, ideal, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible,… … New thesaurus
Illusive Sounds — Infobox record label name = Illusive Sounds founded = 2003 founder = Matt Gudinski / Adam Jankie genre = Hip hop country = Australia location = Albert Park, Victoria url = http://www.illusive.com.auIllusive Sounds is an independent Australian hip … Wikipedia
Illusive Arts Entertainment, LLC — Infobox Company company name = Illusive Arts Entertainment company company type = Privately held company slogan = We Have Munchkins in Our Pants foundation = 2004 by Anna Warren Boersig (Chief Operating Officer) key people = Ray Boersig, Greg… … Wikipedia
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illusive conception — Also known as spectral illusion. The two terms were introduced as synonyms in 1847 by the British surgeon Walter Cooper Dendy (17941871), denoting a subclass of ghosts of the mind s eye , which itself constitutes a subclass of what Dendy calls … Dictionary of Hallucinations
