190 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ɪlˈuːsɪv], [ ɪlˈuːsɪv], [ ɪ_l_ˈuː_s_ɪ_v]

Similar words for illusive:

• all (adjective)
• apparent (adjective)
• chimeric (adjective)
• deceptive (adjective)
• false (adjective)
• fantastic (adjective)
• illusory (adjective)
• imaginary (adjective)
• notional (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• seeming (adjective)
• subtle (adjective)
• illusive (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for illusive

Homophones for illusive

Synonyms for Illusive:

• adj.

  • all (adjective)
  • illusive.
  • apparent (adjective)
  • most possible,
  • most semblant,
  • most apparent,
  • more semblant.
  • chimeric (adjective)
  • chimeral.
  • deceptive (adjective)
  • sham,
  • unread,
  • fake,
  • seeming,
  • deceitful.
  • false (adjective)
  • contrary to fact,
  • casuistic,
  • inexact,
  • cooked-up,
  • off the mark,
  • Misrepresentative,
  • mendacious,
  • sophistical,
  • untruthful.
  • fantastic (adjective)
  • in credible,
  • un-likely,
  • in saner,
  • far fetched,
  • more ridiculous,
  • fictional,
  • out sight,
  • incredible,
  • un likely,
  • more phantasmagorical,
  • in sane,
  • in sanest,
  • in-saner,
  • in-sane,
  • un-likeliest,
  • in-credible,
  • un believable,
  • most phantasmagorical,
  • out of sight,
  • un-believable,
  • in-sanest,
  • un likeliest,
  • un-likelier,
  • un likelier.
  • illusory (adjective)
  • most barmecidal,
  • most illusory,
  • more barmecidal,
  • floatest.
  • imaginary (adjective)
  • hypothetical,
  • Non-existent,
  • apparitional,
  • dreamed-up,
  • fantastical,
  • figmental.
  • notional (adjective)
  • notional.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • imaginary,
  • subtle,
  • phantasmagorical,
  • quasi-,
  • fantastic,
  • floater,
  • Semblant,
  • apparent,
  • blue sky,
  • ostensive,
  • ostensible,
  • false.
  • seeming (adjective)
  • more appearing,
  • most quasi-,
  • more quasi-,
  • sur face,
  • most appearing,
  • sur-face.
  • subtle (adjective)
  • understated,
  • hairline,
  • implied.

• n.

  •
  • honest,
  • fallacious.
  • illusive (noun)
  • unreal.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • illusory,
  • mocking,
  • deceptive,
  • delusive,
  • chimerical.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • dreamlike,
  • phantasmic,
  • hallucinatory,
  • delusory,
  • chimeric,
  • misleading,
  • phantasmagoric.
  •
  • phantasmal.
  •
  • visionary.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • enchanting,
  • immaterial,
  • illusional,
  • jesuitic,
  • mythological,
  • glamorous,
  • delusional,
  • treacherous,
  • irrelevant,
  • illusionary,
  • spellbinding,
  • erroneous,
  • spurious,
  • mistaken,
  • intangible,
  • mythical,
  • irrational,
  • fancied,
  • phantom,
  • untrue,
  • sophistic,
  • Philosophistic,
  • fictive,
  • counterfeit,
  • abstract,
  • charming,
  • unrealistic,
  • possible,
  • empty,
  • bewitching,
  • fanciful,
  • questionable,
  • Trickish,
  • apparently sound,
  • disingenuous,
  • hallucinative,
  • catchy,
  • spectral,
  • mock,
  • Ad captandum,
  • plausible,
  • specious,
  • elusive,
  • hollow,
  • presumable,
  • perverted,
  • probable,
  • entrancing,
  • impalpable,
  • hallucinational,
  • beguiling,
  • unactual,
  • artificial,
  • tricksy,
  • jesuitical,
  • legendary,
  • insincere,
  • dreamy,
  • supposititious,
  • dubious,
  • fascinating,
  • fishy,
  • unfounded,
  • fictitious,
  • tricky,
  • prestigious,
  • theoretical,
  • airy,
  • overrefined,
  • witching,
  • not real,
  • Deceived,
  • autistic,
  • self-deceptive,
  • oversubtle,
  • evasive,
  • spiritual,
  • ad captandum vulgus,
  • mythic,
  • Prestigiatory,
  • ideal,
  • imagined,
  • Colorable,
  • Covinous,
  • delusionary,
  • cunning,
  • Deceptious,
  • insidious,
  • Elusory,
  • Deceiving,
  • insubstantial,
  • incorporeal,
  • ethereal,
  • made-up,
  • surreal,
  • unbelievable,
  • unsubstantial.

Paraphrases for Illusive:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    illusory.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    elusive.

Homophones for Illusive:

• elusive.