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Meanings of illusory in English

Based on or having the nature of an illusion.

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Usage of illusory in English
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Our major problem derives from the projected victory being almost totally illusory.
The Neutronium Alchemist
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But the competition is illusory, because the two largely serve different markets.
Reuters
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The illusory, facile nature of that idea is exposed in the novel.
The Guardian
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They advocate pain for others in the service of some illusory benefit.
The Guardian
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Without a revival in internal strength, Asia's external stability could be illusory.
Reuters
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This difficulty may sometimes render the value of the principle rather illusory.
The New Physics and Its Evolution
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My illusory Alina had told me more than an hour had passed.
Bloodfever
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This last is the most dangerous of all, because the most illusory.
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
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If so, the non-sensational part of our perception will be illusory, i.e.
The Analysis of Mind
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Besides, as Yi Kong always pointed out, riches are transient and illusory.
Petals from the sky
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Here was another life going to be wasted on an illusory dream.
Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
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Its garments, too, glistened so much the brighter with an illusory magnificence.
Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories
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Amalfi yawned involuntarily, his diaphragm sucking against an illusory shortage of oxygen.
Cities in Flight
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This stimulus to the body is, however, largely if not wholly, illusory.
Problems of Conduct: An Introductory Survey of Ethics
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Thinking is, even if mind and matter, self and not-self, are illusory.
George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philoso...
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Finite strivings, isolated purposes, selfish aims, centrifugal pursuits are vain and illusory.
Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries
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