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单词 illusory
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Definition of illusory in English:

illusory

adjective ɪˈluːs(ə)ri
  • Based on illusion; not real.

    因错觉产生的;虚幻的

    she knew the safety of her room was illusory

    她知道自己房间的安全性只是一种错觉。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Our ability to think in abstractions without using the physical world as a base tends to be illusory.
    • They don't want to deceive each other with illusory promises of undying love.
    • Progress towards equity is both real and illusory, things both have and have not progressed.
    • The arbitrariness of these figures is itself an indication of the illusory nature of the benefits.
    • On the negative side, it gives a false or illusory idea of oneself as indispensable in the eyes of other people.
    • One of the leading themes of current philosophy is that the notion of objectivity is utterly illusory.
    • The illusory nature of what we experience can be seen most clearly by examining the dream state.
    • While the data supporting mobile phone risk is illusory, our commitment to risk is quite real.
    • The prospect of getting their motion through was illusory rather than real.
    • But it's an illusory solution because it has little to do with wealth creation.
    • Still less do we need to try and settle that rivalry by calling one of them real and the others more or less illusory.
    • Each year the monastery's monks perform sacred chham dances that enact the illusory nature of life.
    • It would be absurd to say that holes in socks are unreal and illusory just because the hole isn't made of anything and is purely an absence.
    • Instead, he is a man with a nonexistent economic policy and an illusory budget plan.
    • The abolition of religion as people's illusory happiness is the demand for their real happiness.
    • Secularism does not end up healing wounds; it only applies an illusory balm.
    • Turn to the window at the other end of the upper floor and the view of real Oxford is again illusory.
    • The purpose of the Vedas is to cut down the illusory tree of the material world and attain the real tree of the spiritual world.
    • By humiliating others, a person gains an illusory sense of worth and importance.
    • But it's an illusory prize and not worth the sacrifice of lives and principles.
    Synonyms
    delusory, delusional, delusive
    illusionary, imagined, imaginary, fancied, non-existent, unreal, hallucinatory
    sham, hollow, deceptive, deceiving, false, fallacious, fake, bogus, mistaken, erroneous, misleading, misguided, untrue, specious, fanciful, notional, chimerical
    rare illusive, Barmecide

Derivatives

  • illusorily

  • adverb
    • But diagnosis carried out at this level strikes one - however illusorily - as being halfway to cure.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • And even if Koushik manages to illusorily stretch the album longer than it should be, the total run time is still under 30 minutes.
      • Welfare lines and teenage moms by the hundred thousand emerged as a direct result of the apparently but illusorily attractive State incentive not to work.
      • Much of it is a blur, as though the intensity of the experience - of starting my first company - has acted like a plane on my memories and feelings, smoothing them down to an illusorily even surface.
      • In other words, it is reasonable to conclude that correct performance on invalid target-present trials was not based on coincidental hits of illusorily created targets but was mostly based on correct target identification.
  • illusoriness

  • nounɪˈluːs(ə)rɪnəs
    • What I'm saying is that those who are socially allowed a self are also allowed the luxury of postulating its illusoriness and having that called a philosophical position.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Its illusoriness is what makes him say that organisms are only ‘cobbled together’.
      • He always defended human culture, even as he acknowledged its transience and illusoriness.
      • By analyzing the structure of signification, Lacan demonstrates the illusoriness of such a ‘phantasm.’
      • Such promptings and the resulting grave thoughts deprive ‘home country’ of all meaning, a fact reflective of its illusoriness as a concept.

Rhymes

delusory

Definition of illusory in US English:

illusory

adjective
  • Based on illusion; not real.

    因错觉产生的;虚幻的

    she knew the safety of her room was illusory

    她知道自己房间的安全性只是一种错觉。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They don't want to deceive each other with illusory promises of undying love.
    • One of the leading themes of current philosophy is that the notion of objectivity is utterly illusory.
    • By humiliating others, a person gains an illusory sense of worth and importance.
    • Progress towards equity is both real and illusory, things both have and have not progressed.
    • But it's an illusory prize and not worth the sacrifice of lives and principles.
    • But it's an illusory solution because it has little to do with wealth creation.
    • Our ability to think in abstractions without using the physical world as a base tends to be illusory.
    • Turn to the window at the other end of the upper floor and the view of real Oxford is again illusory.
    • On the negative side, it gives a false or illusory idea of oneself as indispensable in the eyes of other people.
    • While the data supporting mobile phone risk is illusory, our commitment to risk is quite real.
    • Still less do we need to try and settle that rivalry by calling one of them real and the others more or less illusory.
    • The purpose of the Vedas is to cut down the illusory tree of the material world and attain the real tree of the spiritual world.
    • The arbitrariness of these figures is itself an indication of the illusory nature of the benefits.
    • The abolition of religion as people's illusory happiness is the demand for their real happiness.
    • The prospect of getting their motion through was illusory rather than real.
    • Each year the monastery's monks perform sacred chham dances that enact the illusory nature of life.
    • Secularism does not end up healing wounds; it only applies an illusory balm.
    • It would be absurd to say that holes in socks are unreal and illusory just because the hole isn't made of anything and is purely an absence.
    • The illusory nature of what we experience can be seen most clearly by examining the dream state.
    • Instead, he is a man with a nonexistent economic policy and an illusory budget plan.
    Synonyms
    delusory, delusional, delusive
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