519 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ɪlˈuːsəɹˌi], [ ɪlˈuːsəɹˌi], [ ɪ_l_ˈuː_s_ə_ɹ_ˌi]

Similar words for illusory:

• airy (adjective)
• apparent (adjective)
• arty (adjective)
• chimeric (adjective)
• deceitful (adjective)
• deceptive (adjective)
• dishonest (adjective)
• elusive (adjective)
• fallacious (adjective)
• fanciful (adjective)
• fictitious (adjective)
• ghostly (adjective)
• groundless (adjective)
• hallucinatory (adjective)
• illusive (adjective)
• imaginary (adjective)
• insubstantial (adjective)
• invented (adjective)
• nonexistent (adjective)
• notional (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• probable (adjective)
• seeming (adjective)
• shadowy (adjective)
• sly (adjective)
• subjective (adjective)
• unreal (adjective)
• unsubstantial (adjective)
• utopian (adjective)
• visionary (adjective)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for illusory

Synonyms for Illusory:

• adj.

  • airy (adjective)
  • lightest,
  • fragile,
  • rarest.
  • apparent (adjective)
  • most apparent,
  • more semblant,
  • most semblant,
  • most possible.
  • arty (adjective)
  • pretentious,
  • imitative,
  • Popularized,
  • Flaunting.
  • chimeric (adjective)
  • chimeral.
  • deceitful (adjective)
  • in-direct,
  • dis-ingenuous,
  • hypo-critical,
  • mendacious,
  • more astucious,
  • un-trustworthy,
  • de-signing,
  • in direct,
  • slick,
  • untruthful,
  • twofaced,
  • under hand,
  • doubledealing,
  • most impostrous,
  • most feline,
  • more impostrous,
  • most deceiving,
  • more deceiving,
  • dis ingenuous,
  • more rascal,
  • un-truthful,
  • most astucious,
  • more beguiling,
  • two faced,
  • most rascal,
  • under-handed,
  • under handed,
  • un truthful,
  • de signing,
  • mis-leading,
  • under-hand,
  • un trustworthy,
  • more feline,
  • hypo critical,
  • double-dealing,
  • mis leading,
  • most beguiling.
  • deceptive (adjective)
  • false,
  • whimsical,
  • fancied,
  • fantastic,
  • float,
  • snide,
  • supposititious,
  • pipe dream,
  • mistaken,
  • chimerical,
  • Barmecidal,
  • sham,
  • illusive,
  • suppositious,
  • seeming,
  • fictive,
  • Imposturous,
  • untrue,
  • fictional,
  • ideal.
  • dishonest (adjective)
  • deceptive.
  • elusive (adjective)
  • in definable,
  • un-specific,
  • more stonewalling,
  • most unspecific,
  • more phantom,
  • in-comprehensible,
  • more elusory,
  • fugacious,
  • in-definable,
  • in comprehensible,
  • most phantom,
  • most elusory,
  • more unspecific,
  • un specific,
  • evanescent,
  • difficult catch,
  • most stonewalling.
  • fallacious (adjective)
  • more reasonless,
  • illogical,
  • un-founded,
  • in-correct,
  • un reasoned,
  • un-sounder,
  • un-sound,
  • un founded,
  • un-reasonable,
  • most reasonless,
  • in valid,
  • un grounded,
  • un-reasoned,
  • mis taken,
  • un truer,
  • un true,
  • un-truer,
  • most ungrounded,
  • in correct,
  • un-truest,
  • in-valid,
  • un-grounded,
  • un sound,
  • un-soundest,
  • un-true,
  • un sounder,
  • more sophistical,
  • most sophistical,
  • more ungrounded,
  • un reasonable,
  • un truest,
  • mis-taken.
  • fanciful (adjective)
  • in-credible,
  • castles the air,
  • incredible,
  • more curious,
  • most fairy tale,
  • more fabulous,
  • more fairy tale,
  • pie in sky,
  • more fancied,
  • in credible,
  • most fairytale,
  • castles air,
  • most fancied,
  • pie sky,
  • pie the sky,
  • more fairy-tale,
  • most fairy-tale,
  • more fairytale.
  • fictitious (adjective)
  • trumped-up,
  • invented,
  • cooked-up,
  • hyped up,
  • figmental.
  • ghostly (adjective)
  • ghostly,
  • wraithy,
  • holy,
  • apparitional,
  • spectral,
  • wraithlike,
  • vampiric,
  • corpselike,
  • eidolic,
  • scarier,
  • scary.
  • groundless (adjective)
  • unwarranted,
  • Foundationless,
  • unsupported,
  • causeless,
  • uncalled for,
  • unprovoked.
  • hallucinatory (adjective)
  • more blue-sky,
  • bluesky,
  • most bluesky,
  • most phantasm,
  • more phantasm,
  • more bluesky,
  • most blue-sky,
  • more blue sky,
  • most blue sky.
  • illusive (adjective)
  • unread,
  • phantasmal.
  • imaginary (adjective)
  • fantastical,
  • dreamed-up.
  • insubstantial (adjective)
  • in firm,
  • fly by night,
  • in firmer,
  • in corporeal,
  • in-firmer,
  • meta physical,
  • in-substantial,
  • in substantial,
  • in-corporeal,
  • too little too late,
  • meta-physical,
  • in firmest,
  • in-firmest.
  • invented (adjective)
  • in vented,
  • in-vented.
  • nonexistent (adjective)
  • null and void,
  • Non-existent,
  • Gossamery,
  • passed on,
  • without foundation,
  • few and far between,
  • Perished,
  • passed away.
  • notional (adjective)
  • notional.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • fictitious,
  • Impostrous,
  • blue-sky,
  • sly,
  • elusive,
  • insubstantial,
  • sneaking,
  • castles in air,
  • fanciful,
  • airy,
  • Double dealing,
  • umbral,
  • apparent,
  • sophistic,
  • sophistical,
  • shadowy,
  • unreal,
  • arty,
  • Elusory,
  • adumbral,
  • subjective,
  • way off,
  • nonexistent,
  • probable,
  • blue sky,
  • fairytale,
  • reasonless,
  • Semblant,
  • ungrounded,
  • groundless,
  • fairy-tale,
  • imaginary,
  • unspecific,
  • fallacious,
  • ostensible,
  • difficult to catch,
  • deceitful,
  • Astucious,
  • castles in the air,
  • utopian,
  • pie-in-the-sky,
  • ostensive,
  • ideological,
  • quasi-.
  • probable (adjective)
  • odds-on,
  • most likely,
  • odds on,
  • in the cards.
  • seeming (adjective)
  • more quasi-,
  • sur-face,
  • more appearing,
  • most quasi-,
  • most appearing,
  • sur face.
  • shadowy (adjective)
  • in-distinct,
  • most umbral,
  • in distinct,
  • more umbral,
  • more adumbral,
  • most adumbral.
  • sly (adjective)
  • impish,
  • dis-honorable,
  • more conniving,
  • more bluffing,
  • most conniving,
  • un scrupulous,
  • most plotting,
  • more plotting,
  • most bluffing,
  • dis honorable,
  • un-scrupulous,
  • more dissembling,
  • most dissembling.
  • subjective (adjective)
  • nonobjective,
  • introspective,
  • unobjective,
  • nonrepresentative,
  • non-objective.
  • unreal (adjective)
  • not real,
  • reachy,
  • unrealistic,
  • unsubstantial,
  • unactual,
  • Storybook.
  • unsubstantial (adjective)
  • impalpable,
  • vacant,
  • inessential,
  • tenuous,
  • unconcrete,
  • weightless,
  • insignificance,
  • nonexistence,
  • vacuous,
  • null,
  • immaterial,
  • ethereal,
  • empty,
  • intangible.
  • utopian (adjective)
  • dreamest,
  • more idealist,
  • more pie in the sky,
  • more ideological,
  • most ideological,
  • un feasible,
  • most pie-in-the-sky,
  • most fantasy,
  • most idealist,
  • more fantasy,
  • un-feasible,
  • more pie-in-the-sky,
  • most pie in the sky.
  • visionary (adjective)
  • in clouds.

• n.

  •
  • hypothetical,
  • mock,
  • pretended,
  • synthetic,
  • fake,
  • simulated,
  • made-up.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • vision.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • delusory,
  • misleading,
  • dreamlike,
  • hallucinatory,
  • phantasmagoric,
  • phantasmic,
  • chimeric,
  • delusive.
  •
  • dreamy.
  •
  • visionary.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • entrancing,
  • illusion,
  • fabricated,
  • ben trovato,
  • suppositional,
  • unorthodox,
  • phantomlike,
  • Trickish,
  • self-contradictory,
  • idealized,
  • cunning,
  • fatuous,
  • fiction,
  • fabrication,
  • Cloud-built,
  • defective,
  • Subtile,
  • idea,
  • erroneous,
  • Visional,
  • plausible,
  • Deceiving,
  • fairy tale,
  • conceptual,
  • bewitching,
  • uncalled-for,
  • whim,
  • gratuitous,
  • peccant,
  • Prestigiatory,
  • fabulous,
  • fantasy,
  • phantom,
  • at fault,
  • face,
  • hallucinative,
  • enchanting,
  • illusional,
  • mythic,
  • straying,
  • autistic,
  • vaporous,
  • deviant,
  • aberrant,
  • outward,
  • pretend,
  • hallucination,
  • awry,
  • off the track,
  • Illusiveness,
  • dream,
  • mythological,
  • insidious,
  • witching,
  • ghost,
  • spurious,
  • flawed,
  • Unreasoned,
  • whimsey,
  • self-deceptive,
  • grandiose,
  • glamorous,
  • beside the mark,
  • faulty,
  • heretical,
  • deception,
  • theoretical,
  • romantic,
  • dubious,
  • phantasmagorical,
  • delusional,
  • abstract,
  • irrational,
  • surreal,
  • appearance,
  • all wrong,
  • Deceptious,
  • idealistic,
  • adrift,
  • imagination,
  • phony,
  • heterodox,
  • spellbinding,
  • perverted,
  • superficial,
  • falsehood,
  • Ad captandum,
  • beguiling,
  • Air-built,
  • varnished,
  • baseless,
  • notion,
  • errant,
  • soi-disant,
  • off,
  • fascinating,
  • windy,
  • amiss,
  • hollow,
  • unproved,
  • unbelievable,
  • askew,
  • tricky,
  • unsound,
  • assumed,
  • capricious,
  • imagined,
  • fabled,
  • head trip,
  • unjustified,
  • mythical,
  • creation,
  • far-fetched,
  • distorted,
  • deceit,
  • misnamed,
  • unreasonable,
  • irrelevant,
  • conception,
  • deviative,
  • make-believe,
  • contrivance,
  • perverse,
  • appearing,
  • transitory,
  • flimsy,
  • apparition,
  • erring,
  • in the clouds,
  • speculative,
  • incorporeal,
  • Covinous,
  • visualized,
  • fleeting,
  • unreliable,
  • tricksy,
  • specter,
  • delusion,
  • wrong,
  • ad captandum vulgus,
  • Deceived,
  • factitious,
  • spiritual,
  • corrupt,
  • mirage,
  • wide,
  • world,
  • questionable,
  • delusionary,
  • astray,
  • spirituous,
  • charming,
  • ironical,
  • invention,
  • fantasized,
  • delirium,
  • unjustifiable,
  • rarefied,
  • ideational,
  • surreptitious,
  • chimera,
  • extravagant,
  • fishy,
  • artificial,
  • construction,
  • gaseous,
  • all off,
  • forged,
  • prestigious,
  • subtle,
  • imaginative,
  • Fatuitous,
  • not right,
  • illusionary,
  • Faultful,
  • hallucinational,
  • pinchbeck,
  • abroad,
  • out,
  • legendary,
  • specious,
  • caprice,
  • all abroad,
  • unfounded,
  • fancy,
  • idyllic,
  • evasive,
  • jesuitical,
  • catchy,
  • air,
  • head game,
  • Imaginational,
  • unfactual.

Paraphrases for Illusory:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    illusionary, illusive.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    bogus, deceitful, dummy, elusive, fake, fallacious, false, fictitious, foolish, fraudulent, futile, misleading, mock, pointless, spurious, Non-existent.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    deceptive, delusional, imaginary, unrealistic.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    delusion, illusion, imaginary.