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

English

Etymology

Adjective

1. Producing delusions.
2. Delusional.

Translations

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