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View synonyms for illusive

illusive

[ ih-loo-siv ]

adjective



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Other Words From

  • il·lusive·ly adverb
  • il·lusive·ness noun
  • nonil·lusive adjective
  • nonil·lusive·ly adverb
  • nonil·lusive·ness noun
  • unil·lusive adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of illusive1

First recorded in 1670–80; illus(ory) + -ive

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Example Sentences

Exclusive is illusive — for as long as it takes someone to re-write and publish.

From Digiday

Bragman says Johnson has that illusive “it” factor that everyone wants.

It may be conjectured that this hope was illusive, for Bragg had exceedingly accurate sources of information.

"He loves to call a football an 'illusive spheroid,'" chuckled another chap.

But happiness is as illusive as time, and is proved as perspicuously to be but a thing of memory, by the same venerable saint.

How he sickened for the bright translucent waters of the mirage, though he knew them false and illusive as a dream!

Nor has any obscure, mysterious, or illusive point in history been cleared up by the spirits.

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