illusory

Word family

il·lu·so·ry /ɪˈluːsəri/ (also illusive /ɪˈluːsɪv/) adjectiveadj formal

UNTRUEfalse but seeming to be real or true 虚假的，貌似真实的

First impressions can often prove illusory.

第一印象往往被证明是不真实的。

Examples from the Corpus

illusory• Signs of economic recovery may be illusory.• For feminists, therefore, the comfort they give is illusory.• And like those concepts, its benefits are illusory and potential consequences alarming.• Escape proves illusory, as we must know it will.• His universalism seemed to offer unending real misery punctuated by periods of illusory bliss.• This leads me to question the completely illusory quality of such identifications.• The Ego is the limited, separated, illusory self which can not see beyond the end of its own nose.• Whatever we do, we must avoid the illusory solution of disengaging from the world by abandoning peace operations.

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Corpus

BNC: 13935 COCA: 16148

illusory

Imaginary and not real: imaginary, hypothetical, false...