Synonyms for Delusive:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • delusive.
  •chimeric (adjective)
  • chimeral.
  •counterfeit (adjective)
  • more put-on,
  • plantest,
  • more imitation,
  • pre-tended,
  • most put-on,
  • most hollywood,
  • pirate,
  • most put on,
  • crockest,
  • twofaced,
  • planter,
  • more affected,
  • wont fly,
  • pre tended,
  • more pirate,
  • most pirate,
  • most puton,
  • two faced,
  • most imitation,
  • puton,
  • pretentious,
  • snide,
  • more put on,
  • most faked,
  • more puton,
  • more hollywood,
  • more faked.
  •deceitful (adjective)
  • untruthful,
  • un-trustworthy,
  • most astucious,
  • double-dealing,
  • de-signing,
  • more impostrous,
  • un truthful,
  • under-hand,
  • most rascal,
  • most feline,
  • most impostrous,
  • more rascal,
  • slick,
  • hypo critical,
  • de signing,
  • more feline,
  • more astucious,
  • more deceiving,
  • in-direct,
  • dis ingenuous,
  • in direct,
  • most beguiling,
  • most deceiving,
  • un-truthful,
  • hypo-critical,
  • under handed,
  • un trustworthy,
  • doubledealing,
  • under hand,
  • mendacious,
  • dis-ingenuous,
  • more beguiling,
  • under-handed.
  •deceptive (adjective)
  • fanciful,
  • quixotic,
  • Deluding,
  • Imposturous,
  • seeming,
  • fantastic,
  • Deceiving,
  • ostensible,
  • spurious,
  • beguiling,
  • apparent.
  •dishonest (adjective)
  • untrue,
  • lying.
  •fallacious (adjective)
  • most reasonless,
  • un-sound,
  • un sounder,
  • un-reasonable,
  • un-soundest,
  • most sophistical,
  • in valid,
  • mis-taken,
  • un sound,
  • more ungrounded,
  • un-sounder,
  • illogical,
  • un-founded,
  • mis taken,
  • un reasonable,
  • un-reasoned,
  • un grounded,
  • more reasonless,
  • in-correct,
  • un founded,
  • in correct,
  • un reasoned,
  • most ungrounded,
  • more sophistical,
  • un-grounded,
  • in-valid.
  •false (adjective)
  • contrary to fact,
  • scoundrelly,
  • casuistic,
  • rascally,
  • Forsworn,
  • cooked-up,
  • Perjured,
  • falsehearted,
  • mythomaniac,
  • inexact,
  • perfidious,
  • Misrepresentative,
  • off the mark.
  •fictitious (adjective)
  • figmental,
  • fictional,
  • hyped up,
  • trumped-up,
  • invented.
  •futile (adjective)
  • un needed,
  • in-effectual,
  • un productive,
  • un-productive,
  • insufficient,
  • in sufficient,
  • un profitable,
  • profitless,
  • un successful,
  • save one breath,
  • un-successful,
  • more profitless,
  • sterile,
  • un-needed,
  • in-effective,
  • un-important,
  • ineffective,
  • in-sufficient,
  • save ones breath,
  • un-substantial,
  • out window,
  • un important,
  • most resultless,
  • most profitless,
  • more impracticable,
  • un availing,
  • trivial,
  • more ineffective,
  • in effective,
  • un satisfactory,
  • in effectual,
  • un substantial,
  • trifling,
  • more resultless,
  • un-satisfactory,
  • un-availing,
  • save breath,
  • un-profitable.
  •hallucinatory (adjective)
  • most phantasm,
  • more phantasm.
  •illusive (adjective)
  • unread.
  •illusory (adjective)
  • more barmecidal,
  • most barmecidal,
  • floatest.
  •illusory/illusive (adjective)
  • bluesky,
  • more bluesky,
  • most illusory,
  • more blue-sky,
  • more semblant,
  • more blue sky,
  • most semblant,
  • most blue-sky,
  • most bluesky,
  • most blue sky.
  •imaginary (adjective)
  • apparitional,
  • dreamed-up,
  • hypothetical,
  • Non-existent.
  •invented (adjective)
  • in-vented,
  • in vented.
  •lying (adjective)
  • most misrepresenting,
  • mis stating,
  • in-venting,
  • most prevaricating,
  • more fibbing,
  • more two-timing,
  • more twotiming,
  • fibbing,
  • more dissimulating,
  • more misrepresenting,
  • more falsifying,
  • more equivocating,
  • mis representing,
  • most double crossing,
  • dis simulating,
  • most doublecrossing,
  • more doublecrossing,
  • most two-timing,
  • more two timing,
  • most double-crossing,
  • mis-representing,
  • most fibbing,
  • more double-crossing,
  • mis-stating,
  • in venting,
  • most dissembling,
  • more misstating,
  • most equivocating,
  • most twotiming,
  • more double crossing,
  • most inventing,
  • most falsifying,
  • more inventing,
  • most dissimulating,
  • more prevaricating,
  • most two timing,
  • most misstating,
  • more dissembling,
  • dis-simulating.
  •lying under oath (adjective)
  • Perjurious.
  •misleading (adjective)
  • more casuistical,
  • be wildering,
  • most bewildering,
  • more demagogic,
  • mis-leading,
  • most casuistical,
  • be-wildering,
  • mis leading,
  • more confounding,
  • most demagogic,
  • most confounding,
  • most distracting,
  • more bewildering,
  • more distracting.
  •notional (adjective)
  • notional.
  •sly (adjective)
  • more conniving,
  • impish,
  • more plotting,
  • most bluffing,
  • most plotting,
  • most conniving,
  • more bluffing.
  •tricky (adjective)
  • most witted,
  • wry,
  • most streetwise,
  • more witted,
  • more streetwise.
  •unreal (adjective)
  • reachy,
  • Storybook.
  •unreliable (adjective)
  • fly by night,
  • un convincing,
  • un stable,
  • un-dependable,
  • un-convincing,
  • un stablest,
  • un-stablest,
  • dis reputable,
  • un sure,
  • dis-reputable,
  • un stabler,
  • un-reliable,
  • un-stabler,
  • un-sure,
  • un dependable,
  • in-constant,
  • un reliable,
  • un-stable.
  •untrue (adjective)
  • un loyal,
  • un truer,
  • out line,
  • un true,
  • most imprecise,
  • un-true,
  • most unloyal,
  • un-loyal,
  • un-truer,
  • more cheating,
  • more unloyal,
  • un truest,
  • un-truest.
  •vain (adjective)
  • Shucker,
  • going nowhere,
  • unnotable,
  • in vicious circle,
  • time-wasting,
  • not a prayer,
  • no-win.

• n.

  •delusive (noun)
  • unrealistic.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • dreamlike,
  • chimeric,
  • hallucinatory,
  • illusive,
  • phantasmic,
  • phantasmagoric,
  • delusory.
  •
  • illusory,
  • phantasmal,
  • deceptive.
  •
  • visionary.
  •Other relevant words:
  • illusionary,
  • subtle,
  • flawed,
  • perverse,
  • mistaken,
  • illusional,
  • unorthodox,
  • ambidextrous,
  • at fault,
  • delusional,
  • fictive,
  • fancied,
  • Deceptious,
  • null,
  • erroneous,
  • Prestigiatory,
  • imitation,
  • ineffectual,
  • Deceived,
  • hypocritical,
  • sham,
  • askew,
  • aberrant,
  • fake,
  • autistic,
  • fishy,
  • beside the mark,
  • Covinous,
  • cunning,
  • inconstant,
  • baseless,
  • out,
  • unfaithful,
  • treacherous,
  • all off,
  • assumed,
  • defective,
  • adrift,
  • unrealizable,
  • elusive,
  • shadowy,
  • capricious,
  • off the track,
  • impractical,
  • Faultful,
  • delusionary,
  • self-contradictory,
  • grandiose,
  • straying,
  • mythical,
  • unbelievable,
  • prestigious,
  • insidious,
  • unworkable,
  • off-key,
  • questionable,
  • faulty,
  • perverted,
  • unfounded,
  • simulated,
  • unreasonable,
  • catchy,
  • extravagant,
  • fancy,
  • dreamy,
  • imagined,
  • hollow,
  • all abroad,
  • Trickish,
  • insubstantial,
  • not right,
  • heretical,
  • self-deceptive,
  • bootless,
  • phantom,
  • spectral,
  • romantic,
  • pretended,
  • unproved,
  • awry,
  • surreal,
  • ad captandum vulgus,
  • mock,
  • deviant,
  • all wrong,
  • useless,
  • amiss,
  • plausible,
  • meretricious,
  • fantastical,
  • unavailing,
  • abortive,
  • distorted,
  • dubious,
  • far-fetched,
  • deviative,
  • wrong,
  • wide,
  • fabled,
  • unfactual,
  • hallucinative,
  • peccant,
  • fabulous,
  • off,
  • unactual,
  • heterodox,
  • put on,
  • unsubstantial,
  • delicate,
  • sour,
  • hallucinational,
  • whimsical,
  • tricksy,
  • errant,
  • artful,
  • astray,
  • airy,
  • ideal,
  • fraudulent,
  • alluring,
  • corrupt,
  • erring,
  • unprofitable,
  • abroad.

Paraphrases for Delusive:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    misleading.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    misguided, misinformed, deceptive.

Antonyms for Delusive:

• adj.

  • deceptive
    actual, real, factual, honest, truthful, certain.
  • Other antonyms:
    illuminating, open, effective, aboveboard, straightforward, forthright, sound, solid, frank, valid, advantageous, plain, straight, elucidative, foursquare, clarifying, serviceable, powerful, explanatory, beneficial, revelatory, adequate, realistic, efficient, substantial, openhearted, direct, competent, useful, free-spoken, revealing, trustworthy, outspoken, worthy, expedient, sufficient, plainspoken, potent, profitable, candid, valuable.

Homophones for Delusive:

• Dall's Sheep, dulcify, Dall Sheep.