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more illusive

ADJECTIVE

deceptive, false

Synonyms

WEAK

apparent blue-sky chimerical deceitful delusive delusory fake fallacious fanciful fantastic fictional fictitious fictive hallucinatory ideal imaginary misleading mistaken ostensible pseudo seeming semblant sham suppositious unreal untrue visionary whimsical

Antonyms

WEAK

certain factual real sure true

ADJECTIVE

deceptive

Synonyms

WEAK

apparent chimerical deceitful delusive fake false illusory imaginary misleading mocking seeming sham unread

Antonyms

WEAK

real

Example Sentences

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Though a large, fat man, none was more illusive, more difficult to realise, harder to get on terms of intimacy with.

From Celibates by Moore, George (George Augustus)

And always there seemed to be one vision more illusive than the rest which she particularly longed to recapture.

From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth

The ideal world seemed hardly more illusive than the material.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

And the more distant they are from philosophy and reason, the more distant they will be from law and order, and the more illusive will be their pleasures.

From The Republic by Jowett, Benjamin

To the Earth people our ships are no longer the fireballs of mysterious legend, haunted will-o'-the-wisps, marsh flickerings and the even more illusive distortions of the sick in mind.

From The Mississippi Saucer by Long, Frank Belknap