most illusory

ADJECTIVE

deceptive, false

Synonyms

WEAK

apparent blue-sky chimerical deceitful delusive delusory fake fallacious fanciful fantastic fictional fictitious fictive hallucinatory ideal imaginary misleading mistaken ostensible pseudo seeming semblant sham suppositious unreal untrue visionary whimsical

Antonyms

WEAK

certain factual real sure true

ADJECTIVE

deceptive

Synonyms

STRONGEST

false hallucinatory misleading unreal whimsical

WEAK

Barmecidal apparent blue sky chimerical deceitful delusive delusory fallacious fanciful fantastic fictional fictitious fictive float ideal illusive imaginary mistaken ostensible pipe dream seeming semblant sham suppositious supposititious untrue visionary

Antonyms

STRONGEST

genuine honest real truthful

Example Sentences

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Even as his ambitions appear most illusory, he looks in no mood to scale back.

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2022

So it was movies and television again that brought the war back: the technological media of illusion fancifully reconstructing what was in some ways the most illusory experience in the national history.

From Time Magazine Archive

This last is the most dangerous of all, because the most illusory.

From The Man Who Laughs by Hugo, Victor

Now the bear as an object of the chase, at least in Canada, is one of the most illusory of phantoms.

From The Ruling Passion; tales of nature and human nature by Van Dyke, Henry

He failed not, as usual, to meet with physicians who, from mercenary motives, held out to him the most illusory prospects of a perfect cure.

From Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction by Davenport, John