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more illusory

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

STRONGEST

false hallucinatory misleading unreal whimsical

WEAK

Barmecidal apparent blue sky chimerical deceitful delusive delusory fallacious fanciful fantastic fictional fictitious fictive float ideal illusive imaginary mistaken ostensible pipe dream seeming semblant sham suppositious supposititious untrue visionary

Antonyms

STRONGEST

genuine honest real truthful

Example Sentences

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To see more illusory faces, spend time thinking about them.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2022

For SARS-CoV-2, herd immunity is unfortunately more illusory.

From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2021

The inconvenient truth is that racial progress in this country is always more complex and frequently more illusory than it appears at first glance.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2020

But those successes couldn’t have proved more illusory.

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2019

I packed my trunk and dispatched it to the station in confident expectation of our mid-afternoon departure, and Zulime did the same, although it must have seemed more illusory to her than to me.

From A Daughter of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin