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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illusive |
| Synonyms: | apparent, blue-sky, chimeric, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, delusory, dreamlike, fake*, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, hallucinatory, ideal, illusory, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, phantasmagoric, phantasmic, pseudo*, seeming, semblant, sham*, suppositious, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imaginary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictitious, invented |
| Synonyms: | abstract, apocryphal, apparitional, assumed, chimerical, deceptive, delusive, dreamed-up, dreamlike, dreamy, fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, figmental, fool's paradise, hallucinatory, hypothetical, ideal, illusive, illusory, imaginative, imagined, legendary, made-up, mythological, nonexistent, notional, phantasmal, phantasmic, quixotic, shadowy, spectral, supposed, supposititious, theoretical, trumped up, unreal, unsubstantial, visionary, whimsical |
| Notes: | imaginary means not based on fact while imaginative means marked by independence and creativity in thought or action |
| Antonyms: | existing, factual, genuine, physical, real, substantial, true |
| Main Entry: | spectral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ghostly |
| Synonyms: | apparitional, eerie, haunted, illusory, phantasmal, phantom, scary, shadowy, spiritual, spooky, supernatural |
| Main Entry: | chimeric |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary |
| Synonyms: | chimeral, chimerical, delusive, delusory, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, hallucinatory, illusive, illusory, imagined, made-up, notional, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantasmic, unreal, unrealistic, visionary |
| Main Entry: | hallucinatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illusive |
| Synonyms: | apparent, blue-sky, chimeric, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, delusory, dreamlike, fake*, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, ideal, illusory, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, phantasm, phantasmagoric, phantasmal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | notional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary |
| Synonyms: | abstract, apocryphal, apparitional, assumed, chimeric, chimerical, conceptual, deceptive, delusive, dreamed-up, dreamlike, dreamy, fabulous, fancied, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fictional, figmental, fool's paradise, hallucinatory, hypothetical, ideal, illusive, illusory, imaginative, imagined, legendary, made-up, mythological, nonexistent, phantasmal, phantasmic, quixotic, shadowy, spectral, supposed, supposititious, theoretical, trumped up, unreal, unsubstantial, visionary, whimsical |
| Main Entry: | phantasmagoric |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illusive |
| Synonyms: | apparent, blue-sky, chimeric, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, delusory, dreamlike, fake*, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, hallucinatory, ideal, illusory, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, phantasmal, phantasmic, pseudo*, seeming, semblant, sham*, suppositious, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | phantasmic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illusive |
| Synonyms: | apparent, blue-sky, chimeric, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, delusory, dreamlike, fake*, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, hallucinatory, ideal, illusory, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, pseudo*, seeming, semblant, sham*, suppositious, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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