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| Main Entry: | illusory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive |
| Synonyms: | apparent, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, fallacious, false, fanciful, fantastic, fictitious, float, ideal, illusive, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, pipe dream, seeming, sham, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical, Barmecidal, blue sky, delusory, fictional, fictive, hallucinatory, semblant, suppositious, supposititious |
| Notes: | illusory means based on or having the nature of an illusion; elusive means difficult to describe or skillful at eluding capture |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real |
| Main Entry: | illusory/illusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive, false |
| Synonyms: | apparent, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, fake, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, fictitious, ideal, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, pseudo*, seeming, sham*, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical, blue-sky, delusory, fictional, fictive, hallucinatory, semblant, suppositious |
| Antonyms: | certain, factual, real, sure, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | arty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretended expertise in art; affected interest |
| Synonyms: | affected, deceptive, ephemeral, false, flaunting, illusory, imitative, overblown, popular, pretentious, pseudo, tasteless, popularized |
| Main Entry: | deceitful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest, insincere |
| Synonyms: | artful, astute, clandestine, counterfeit, crafty, cunning, deceptive, delusive, designing, disingenuous, double-dealing, duplicitous, fallacious, false, feline, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, hypocritical, illusory, indirect, insidious, knavish, lying, mendacious, misleading, rascal, roguish, shifty, slick, sly, sneaky, stealthy, subtle, treacherous, tricky, two-faced*, underhand, underhanded, untrustworthy, untruthful, wily, astucious, beguiling, deceiving, delusory, guileful, impostrous |
| Antonyms: | faithful, frank, honest, loyal, open, sincere, trustworthy, truthful, upright |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deceptive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, bum*, catchy, crafty, cunning, deceitful, delusive, designing, disingenuous, fake, fallacious, false, fishy, foxy, fraudulent, illusory, indirect, insidious, lying, misleading, mock, oblique, off*, phony, plausible, rascal, roguish, scheming, seeming, serpentine, shifty, slick, slippery, sly, sneaky, snide, specious, spurious, subtle, treacherous, tricky, two-faced*, underhand, underhanded, unreliable, wily, astucious, beguiling, deceiving, deluding, delusory, imposturous |
| Antonyms: | forthright, frank, honest, open, truthful, upright |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | delusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive |
| Synonyms: | apparent, chimerical, fallacious, false, fanciful, fantastic, illusive, illusory, imaginary, misleading, ostensible, quixotic, seeming, specious, spurious, visionary, beguiling, deceiving, deluding |
| Antonyms: | actual, certain, factual, honest, real, truthful |
| Main Entry: | elusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | evasive, mysterious |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, baffling, cagey, deceitful, deceptive, equivocal, evanescent, fallacious, fleeting, fraudulent, fugitive, greasy, illusory, incomprehensible, insubstantial, intangible, misleading, occult, phantom, puzzling, shifty, shy, slippery, subtle, transient, transitory, tricky, volatile, difficult to catch, elusory, fugacious, imponderable, indefinable, stonewalling, unspecific |
| Antonyms: | confronting, facing, inviting, attracting, encountering, enticing |
| Main Entry: | fallacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | false, wrong |
| Synonyms: | deceptive, delusive, erroneous, fictitious, fishy*, fraudulent, illogical, illusory, incorrect, invalid, irrational, mad, misleading, mistaken, off*, phony, spurious, unfounded, unreal, unreasonable, unsound, untrue, beguiling, deceiving, deluding, delusory, reasonless, sophistic, sophistical, ungrounded, unreasoned, way off |
| Antonyms: | correct, real, true, truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fanciful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imaginary, romantic |
| Synonyms: | absurd, aerial, bizarre, capricious, chimerical, curious, dreamlike, extravagant, fabulous, fantastic, fictitious, flaky*, floating, ideal, illusory, imaginative, imagined, incredible, kinky*, legendary, mythical, offbeat, on cloud nine*, pie in the sky*, pipe dream*, poetic, preposterous, shadowy, unreal, visionary, whimsical, wild, blue sky, castles in the air, fairy-tale, fancied, fantastical, fictional, fictive, notional, suppositious |
| Antonyms: | grave, ordinary, real, serious, sincere, unimaginative, unfanciful, unromantic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fictitious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | untrue, made-up |
| Synonyms: | apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bogus*, chimerical, counterfeit, deceptive, delusive, dishonest, ersatz*, factitious, fake, false, fanciful, fantastic, fashioned, feigned, illusory, imaginary, imagined, improvised, made, make-believe, misleading, mock, mythical, phony, queer, romantic, sham*, simulated, spurious, synthetic, unreal, concocted, cooked-up, created, delusory, fabricated, faked, fictional, fictive, figmental, hyped up, invented, suppositious, supposititious, trumped-up |
| Antonyms: | actual, certain, confirmed, factual, genuine, real, sincere, sure, true, truthful, proven |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ghostly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spooky |
| Synonyms: | cadaverous, divine, eerie, ghastly, haunted, holy, illusory, insubstantial, pale, phantom, scary, shadowy, spectral, spiritual, supernatural, uncanny, unearthly, wan, weird, apparitional, corpselike, deathlike, eidolic, ghostlike, phantasmal, vampiric, wraithlike, wraithy |
| Main Entry: | groundless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without reason, justification |
| Synonyms: | baseless, bottomless, chimerical, empty, false, flimsy, gratuitous, idle, illogical, illusory, imaginary, unauthorized, uncalled-for, unfounded, unjustified, unwarranted, causeless, foundationless, unprovoked, unsupported |
| Antonyms: | reasonable, warranted, called-for, grounded, justified, proven |
| 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 |
| Antonyms: | existing, factual, genuine, physical, real, substantial, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | insubstantial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak, imaginary |
| Synonyms: | aerial, airy, chimerical, decrepit, ephemeral, false, fanciful, feeble, flimsy, fly-by-night*, fragile, frail, idle, illusory, immaterial, incorporeal, infirm, intangible, metaphysical, petty, poor, puny, slender, slight, tenuous, thin, unreal, unsound, unsubstantial, imponderable, too little too late |
| Antonyms: | real, strong, substantial |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nonexistent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictional, not real |
| Synonyms: | absent, airy, baseless, blank, chimerical, dead, defunct, departed, dreamlike, dreamy, empty, ethereal, extinct, flimsy, gone, groundless, hypothetical, illusory, imaginary, imagined, immaterial, insubstantial, legendary, lost, missing, mythical, negative, null, null and void*, shadowy, tenuous, unreal, unsubstantial, vacant, vague, vaporous, void, extinguished, fancied, few and far between, gossamery, hallucinatory, imponderable, passed away, passed on, perished, ungrounded, without foundation |
| Antonyms: | actual, existing, real, true, existent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ostensible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alleged, supposed |
| Synonyms: | apparent, avowed, demonstrative, exhibited, illusive, illusory, likely, manifest, notable, outward, plausible, pretended, professed, quasi, seeming, so-called*, specious, superficial, colorable, purported, semblant |
| Antonyms: | improbable, obscure, unlikely, vague |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | probable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | likely to happen |
| Synonyms: | apparent, believable, credible, earthly, feasible, illusory, mortal, ostensible, plausible, possible, presumable, rational, reasonable, seeming, in the cards, most likely, odds-on, presumed |
| Antonyms: | improbable, unlikely |
| Main Entry: | seeming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | apparent |
| Synonyms: | illusive, illusory, ostensible, outward, professed, specious, surface, appearing, quasi-, semblant |
| Antonyms: | real, true |
| Main Entry: | sly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clever, devious |
| Synonyms: | arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, captious, covert, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, designing, dishonest, dishonorable, double-dealing, elusive, foxy, furtive, illusory, impish, ingenious, insidious, intriguing, mean, mischievous, roguish, scheming, secret, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, smart, smooth, stealthy, subtle, traitorous, treacherous, tricky, underhand, unscrupulous, wily, bluffing, conniving, dissembling, guileful, plotting, sneaking |
| Antonyms: | honest, open, simple, straight, straightforward, unclever |
| Main Entry: | spectral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ghostly |
| Synonyms: | eerie, haunted, illusory, phantom, scary, shadowy, spiritual, spooky, supernatural, apparitional, phantasmal |
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