| Main Entry: | illusory/illusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive, false |
Synonyms: |
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: |
certain, factual, real, sure, true |
| Main Entry: | imaginative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | creative, inventive |
Synonyms: |
artistic, avant-garde, blue-sky, brain wave, breaking ground, clever, dreamy, enterprising, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, fertile, fictive, high-flown, ingenious, inspired, offbeat, original, originative, pie-in-the-sky, poetic, poetical, productive, quixotic, romantic, utopian, visionary, vivid, way out, whimsical |
| Notes: | imaginary means not based on fact while imaginative means marked by independence and creativity in thought or action |
Antonyms: |
dull, uncreative, unimaginative, uninventive, unresourceful |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | phantasmal |
| 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 |
| 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 |