From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Illusive \Il*lu"sive\, adjective [See {Illude}.] Deceiving by false show; deceitful; deceptive; false; illusory; unreal.
Truth from illusive falsehood to command. --Thomson.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: 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 decision that are staples of democracy" [syn: {illusory}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "illusive": Barmecidal, Barmecide, Circean, airy, apparent, apparently sound, apparitional, autistic, beguiling, bewitching, casuistic, catchy, charming, chimeric, colorable, deceiving, deceptive, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, disingenuous, dreamlike, dreamy, dubious, empty, enchanting, entrancing, erroneous, fallacious, false, fantastic, fascinating, fishy, glamorous, hallucinatory, hollow, illusional, illusionary, illusory, imaginary, insincere, jesuitic, misleading, ostensible, overrefined, oversubtle, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, philosophistic, plausible, questionable, seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, sophistic, sophistical, specious, spectral, spellbinding, supposititious, trickish, tricksy, tricky, unactual, unfounded, unreal, unsubstantial, visionary, witching
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