Crossword-Solution: ILLUSORY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Illusory | a. | Deceiving, or tending of deceive; fallacious; illusive; as, illusory promises or hopes. |
We have 63 clues for the answer “ILLUSORY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| semblant | 1 answer |
| Unreal; deceptive | 1 answer |
| Tending to deceive. | 1 answer |
| Not what it appears to be | 1 answer |
| Evasive and decetiful | 1 answer |
| Like a mirage | 1 answer |
| Not for real | 2 answers |
| Not really there | 3 answers |
| Barmecidal | 5 answers |
| Phantasmal | 8 answers |
| meretricious | 11 answers |
| LIKE a dream | 12 answers |
| Invented | 16 answers |
| NOT real | 19 answers |
| Ersatz | 23 answers |
| Illusive | 26 answers |
| Idealistic | 26 answers |
| Deceiving | 27 answers |
| incorporeal | 27 answers |
| Ostensible | 29 answers |
| formalistic | 30 answers |
| postulated | 30 answers |
| taken as known | 31 answers |
| Presupposed | 31 answers |
| commonly believed | 31 answers |
| reputed | 31 answers |
| fictive | 32 answers |
| suppositional | 32 answers |
| taken for granted | 33 answers |
| putative | 34 answers |
| SUPERNATURAL appearance | 35 answers |
| mythological | 36 answers |
| Notional | 37 answers |
| Nonexistent. | 39 answers |
| spectral | 40 answers |
| byronic | 40 answers |
| historic | 41 answers |
| illegitimate | 41 answers |
| Imagined | 42 answers |
| fabled | 45 answers |
| Granted | 46 answers |
| Made up | 47 answers |
| Seeming | 48 answers |
| Believed | 48 answers |
| Fictional. | 49 answers |
| Handed down | 50 answers |
| mythical | 50 answers |
| Imaginative | 51 answers |
| Historical ___ | 52 answers |
| impressible | 52 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with ILLUSORY (5)
And if there be a pleasure in being filled with that which is according to nature, that which is more really filled with more real being will more really and truly enjoy true pleasure; whereas that which participates in less real being will be less truly and surely satisfied, and will participate in an illusory and less real pleasure? Unquestionably.
There was something illusory in this transplantation of the wealth and honours of a family, a thing by its nature so deeply rooted in the soil; something ghostly in this sense of home-coming so far from home.
Like enough, the progress is illusory, a mere cat’s cradle having been wound and unwound out of words.
But his voice had the tremulous note of excitement in it and his hands fumbled nervously, touching evidence of the agitated gropings of his mind in the faint, perhaps illusory, light of a new-sprung hope.
Freedom and change, space and the possibilities of the unknown, these are constant elements of our day-dreams; now and then actual life dangles visions of them before our eyes, alas! only to teach us that the aspirations which they inspire are, for the most part, illusory.
Quotes with ILLUSORY (3)
Prayer is based on the remote possibility that someone is actually listening; but so is a lot of conversation. If the former seems far-fetched, consider the latter: even if someone is listening to your story, and really hearing, that person will disappear from existence in the blink of a cosmic eye, so why bother to tell this perhaps illusory and possibly un-listening person something he or she is unlikely to truly understand, just before the two of you blip back out of exist…
The theological perspective of participation actually saves the appearances by exceeding them. It recognizes that materialism and spiritualism are false alternatives, since if there is only finite matter there is not even that, and that for phenomena really to be there they must be more than there. Hence, by appealing to an eternal source for bodies, their art, language, sexual and political union, one is not ethereally taking leave of their density. On the contrary, one is i…
Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1952–2022).