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UK
/ɪlˈuːsɪv/
]
[ US /ˌɪˈɫusɪv/ ]
[ US /ˌɪˈɫusɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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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
How To Use illusive In A Sentence
- One can strip the fifties of its illusive aura of dull conformity without inflating cultural dissidence or generational muscle-flexing into political resistance.
- Before her the shadows danced illusively; the film of brightness changed and shifted; then all glimmering and partial shade were swallowed up in a black chasm. Under the Rose
- What makes this phase such an illusive time-drain is our wariness of being caught by the non-relevant e-mail. Globe and Mail
- What makes this phase such an illusive time-drain is our wariness of being caught by the non-relevant e-mail. Globe and Mail
- Professor Lowell controverts M. Antoniadi's claim to have proved that the lines are non-existent, and that the only markings are small separate shadings which are illusively seen as lines. To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story
- Physically, he's illusive and dreamy. Times, Sunday Times
- Luck -- that strange, illusive, heaven sent, burst of good fortune-has not fired a missile in your direction. Warren Adler: On Rejection and Renewal: A Note to Aspiring Novelists
- Thereupon Narayana called his bewitching Maya (illusive power) to his aid, and assuming the form of an enticing female, coquetted with the The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
- I often awoke in the night to the sound of their roars, but they remained an illusive presence. Globe and Mail
- As Mark Darcy, Firth played an illusive dreamboat named after his own television triumph as Austen's hero; Grant's portrayal of the caddish Daniel Cleaver was an amused nod at his own popular persona.
