Synonyms for Illusory

Synonyms for "illusory" (172 found)

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Closest matches (35)

aberrant abroad adriftair builtair-built airyall abroadall in the mindall offall wrongamiss apparent apparitional askew assumed astrayat faultautistic awry barmecidal

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barmecide beguilingbeside the markbewitching catchy charming chimeric chimerical circean cloud-built

Adjective(2 words)

apparent resultartificial

Noun(1 words)

apparently clear

Verb(2 words)

belied belying

Strong matches (51)

corrupt deceiving deceptive defective delusional delusionary delusive delusory dereistic deviant deviational deviative distorted dreamlike dreamy dubious enchanting entrancing errant erring

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erroneous ethereal fallacious false fancied fanciful fancy fantastic fantastical fascinating fatuitous fatuous faultful faulty fictional fictitious fictive fishy flawed gaseous glamorous gnominious gossamery groundless

Verb(1 words)

daydreamed

Adjective(4 words)

deceptive deluded delusive false

Noun(2 words)

deludingforced perspective

Related words (86)

Verb(1 words)

hallucinated

hallucinatory heretical heterodox ideal illogical illusional illusionary illusive imaginary imaginational imagined immaterial insubstantialmerely nominalmisleading mistaken nonexistentnot realnot rightnot true

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Adjective(12 words)

illusive imaginary maya-related misleadingoptical effectpseudoseeming effectsimulative specious spuriousspurious claimvertiginous

Noun(4 words)

instinctive understandingmagic mock potemkin

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

4 entries

cognitive biasfalsehood illusion misperception

More specific

4 entries

false memoryillusory correlationmemory illusionperceptual illusion

Collocations

6 entries

false memoryillusory controlillusory correlationillusory memoryillusory truth effectperceptual illusion

Inflections

2 entries

more illusorymost illusory

Derivations

2 entries

illusorily illusoriness

similar

1 entries

unreal

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The feelings of "love at first sight" and "faithful unto death" are unrealistic; this sort of unrealistic and illusory feeling is not what we need.

Source: tatoeba (724314)

May I awaken within the dream and grasp the fact that I am dreaming so that all dream-like beings may likewise awaken from the nightmare of illusory suffering and confusion.

Source: tatoeba (2495447)

Robert Louis Stevenson warns us that "to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive," beautifully portraying the emptiness and illusory character of achievement.

Source: tatoeba (8327851)

Human life is like a pendulum that oscillates incessantly between boredom and pain, with fleeting and above all illusory intervals of pleasure and joy.

Source: tatoeba (10325941)

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Illusory