Word Meanings - ILLUSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Deceiving by false show; deceitful; deceptive; false; illusory; unreal. Truth from illusive falsehood to command. Thomson.

Related words: (words related to ILLUSIVE)

• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• TRUTHY
  Truthful; likely; probable. "A more truthy import." W. G. Palgrave.
• COMMANDING
  1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn.
• FALSE-FACED
  Hypocritical. Shak.
• ILLUSIVENESS
  The quality of being illusive; deceptiveness; false show.
• ILLUSIVELY
  In a illusive manner; falsely.
• COMMANDATORY
  Mandatory; as, commandatory authority.
• FALSETTO
  A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
• COMMANDO
  In South Africa, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a hundred Boers. The war bands, called commandos, have played a great part in the . . . military history of the country. James Bryce.
• DECEITFUL
  Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak.
• TRUTHLESS
  Devoid of truth; dishonest; dishonest; spurious; faithless. -- Truth"less*ness, n.
• ILLUSORY
  Deceiving, or tending of deceive; fallacious; illusive; as, illusory promises or hopes.
• UNREALLY
  In an unreal manner; ideally.
• THOMSONIANISM
  An empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts.
• TRUTH-LOVER
  One who loves the truth. Truth-lover was our English Duke. Tennyson.
• COMMANDEER
  To compel to perform military service; to seize for military purposes; -- orig. used of the Boers. 2. To take arbitrary or forcible possession of.
• COMMANDMENT
  One of the ten laws or precepts given by God to the Israelites at Mount Sinai. 3. The act of commanding; exercise of authority. And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment. Shak. (more info) 1. An order or injunction given
• UNREALIZE
  To make unreal; to idealize. His fancy . . . unrealizes everything at a touch. Lowell.
• COMMANDINGLY
  In a commanding manner.
• COMMANDABLE
  Capable of being commanded.
• UNDECEIVE
  To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.