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Delusory

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Adjective

1. deceptive, delusory

causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true

Example Sentences:
'deceptive calm'
'a delusory pleasure'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Delusory

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noun
1. 
a mistaken or misleading opinion, idea, belief, etc
he has delusions of grandeur
2. psychiatry
a belief held in the face of evidence to the contrary, that is resistant to all reason
See also illusion, hallucination
3. 
the act of deluding or state of being deluded

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Delusory

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noun
1. 
a deluding or being deluded
2. 
a false belief or opinion
3.  Psychiatry
a false, persistent belief maintained in spite of evidence to the contrary

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Delusory

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adj.
Tending to deceive; delusive.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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