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illusive
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Illusive \Il*lu"sive\, a. [See Illude .] Deceiving by false show; deceitful; deceptive; false; illusory; unreal. Truth from illusive falsehood to command. --Thomson.
Wikipedia
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Illusive is a self-released 2004 3-song single EP by Israeli oriental death/doom band Distorted , released on June 29, 2004.
Wiktionary
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a. Subject to or pertaining to an ''illusion'', often used in the sense of an unrealistic expectation or an unreachable goal or outcome.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. based on or having the nature of an illusion; "illusive hopes of of finding a better job"; "Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"deceptive, illusory," formed in English 1670s, from stem of illusion + -ive . Also see illusory .
Usage examples of illusive.
The simple and Divine Truth was overlaid with various and sensual fictions, buried under illusive symbols, and at last perverted into horrible phantoms.
And so, those who cannot admit his actual speculative results, precisely his report on the invisible theoretic world, have been to the point sometimes, in their objection, that by sheer effectiveness of abstract language, he gave an illusive air of reality or substance to the mere nonentities of metaphysic hypothesis--of a mind trying to feed itself on its own emptiness.