delusive

delusive
    adj 1: inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a
           wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes"
           [syn: {delusive}, {false}]
    

Delusive \De*lu"sive\, a. [See {Delude}.]
   Apt or fitted to delude; tending to mislead the mind;
   deceptive; beguiling; delusory; as, delusive arts; a delusive
   dream.
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         Delusive and unsubstantial ideas.        --Whewell.
   -- {De*lu"sive*ly}, adv. -- {De*lu"sive*ness}, n.
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95 Moby Thesaurus words for "delusive":
      Barmecidal, Barmecide, aberrant, abroad, adrift, airy, all abroad,
      all off, all wrong, amiss, apparent, apparitional, askew, astray,
      at fault, autistic, awry, beguiling, beside the mark, catchy,
      chimeric, chimerical, corrupt, deceiving, deceptive, defective,
      deluding, delusional, delusionary, delusory, dereistic, deviant,
      deviational, deviative, distorted, dreamlike, dreamy, dubious,
      errant, erring, erroneous, fallacious, false, fanciful, fantastic,
      faultful, faulty, fishy, flawed, hallucinatory, heretical,
      heterodox, illogical, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory,
      imaginary, misleading, not right, not true, off, off the track,
      ostensible, out, peccant, perverse, perverted, phantasmagoric,
      phantasmal, phantom, questionable, quixotic, seeming,
      self-contradictory, self-deceptive, self-deluding, specious,
      spectral, straying, supposititious, trickish, tricksy, tricky,
      unactual, unfactual, unfounded, unorthodox, unproved, unreal,
      unsubstantial, untrue, visionary, wide, wrong