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adj. based on or having the nature of an illusion; "illusive hopes 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 decision that are staples of democracy"

Fuzzynyms (13)

unrealistic

adj. not realistic; "unrealistic expectations"; "prices at unrealistic high levels"

misleading, deceitful, deceptive, fraudulent

adj. intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"

false

adj. not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery"

seeming, ostensible, apparent

adj. appearing as such but not necessarily so; "for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"; "the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"; "the ostensible truth of their theories"; "his seeming honesty"

romantic, wild-eyed, quixotic, unrealistic

adj. not sensible about practical matters; unrealistic; "as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood"; "a romantic disregard for money"; "a wild-eyed dream of a world state"

Synonyms (31)

deceptive, delusory

adj. causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"

dreamlike, surreal

adj. resembling a dream; "night invested the lake with a dreamlike quality"; "as irrational and surreal as a dream"

eye-deceiving, trompe-l'oeil

adj. creating the illusion of seeing reality; "the visual deception of trompe-l'oeil art"

legendary, fabled

adj. celebrated in fable or legend; "the fabled Paul Bunyan and his blue ox"; "legendary exploits of Jesse James"

made-up, fictitious, fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictive, invented

adj. formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"; "used fictitious names"; "a made-up story"

fabulous, mythic, mythical, mythologic, mythological

adj. based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity; "mythical centaurs"; "the fabulous unicorn"

fanciful

adj. not based on fact; dubious; "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "her imagined fame"; "to create a notional world for oneself"

hallucinatory

adj. characterized by or characteristic of hallucination ; "the bizarre hallucinatory dreams of fever"- Jean Stafford

illusional, illusionary

adj. marked by or producing illusion; "illusionary stage effects"

notional, imaginary, imagined

adj. not based on fact; dubious; "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "her imagined fame"; "to create a notional world for oneself"

play, make-believe, pretend

adj. imagined as in a play; "the make-believe world of theater"; "play money"; "dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish"

phantom

adj. something apparently sensed but having no physical reality; "seemed to hear faint phantom bells"; "the amputee's illusion of a phantom limb"

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real, existent

adj. being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; "real objects"; "real people; not ghosts"; "a film based on real life"; "a real illness"; "real humility"; "Life is real! Life is earnest!"- Longfellow

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