Delusory

Definition: Delusory

Delusory

Adjective

1. Causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure".

Date "delusory" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Synonym: Delusory

Synonym: deceptive (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Deception	Adjective: deceived; Verb: deceiving; cunning; prestigious, prestigiatory; deceptive, deceptious; deceitful, covinous; delusive, delusory; illusive, illusory; elusive, insidious, ad captandum vulgus.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Delusory

English words defined with "delusory": deceptive. (references)

"Delusory" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Delusory" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	5	157,705

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "delusory": self-delusory.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "delusory"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mashtrues (ambidextrous, artful, bilker, bluffer, bouncer, catchy, cheat, Crimp, deceitful, deceiver, deceptive, delusive, diddler, dishonest, dodger, double, double dealing, double-dealer, finagler, fraud, fraudulent, guileful, gyp, humbug, hustler, impostor, Jack-in-the-box, mendacious, misleading, mountebank, pettifogger, pettifogging, phoney, quack, racketeer, rascal, rascally, rogue, sandman, shuffler, skin, snide, swindler, trickster, twister, two-tongued), i rremë (affected, delusive, fallible, false, fictitious, fictive, hollow, illusive, lying, mendacious, meretricious, mock, out of whole cloth, pasteboard, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, plastic, pseudo, simulated, spoof, spurious, supposititious, untruthful). (various references)

Arabic		‏وهمي (airy, airy fairy, astral, chimerical, delusive, dummy, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, made up, mirage, mythical, notional, paper, phantom, putative, quixotic, romantic, subjective, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, visionary), ‏خادع (bluffy, crafty, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, dishonest, double dealing, fallacious, false, fool, illusive, illusory, insincere, misleading, rip off, trickish, tricky, wily), ‏باطل (bad, bootless, delusive, dud, ineffective, invalid, nugatory, null, null and void, obsolete, unfruitful, vicious, void, worthless). (various references)

Bulgarian		лъжлив (bogus, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, double, double-tongued, elusory, false, lying, mendacious, misleading, mock, perjurious, phantasmagoric, pretended, quack, shifty, spoof, tinsel, truthless, untrue, untruthful, vain), измамлив (deceptive, delusive, fraudulent, guileful, illusory, unsound), илюзорен (delusive, illusional, illusive, illusory, insubstantial, phantom, unreal, visionary). (various references)

Czech		klamný (deceptive, fallacious, false, illusive, illusory, misleading, untrue). (various references)

French		dupeur (deceiver, deceptive, delusive), trompeur (deceitful, deceiver, deceptive, delusive), illusoire (deceptive, delusive). (various references)

German		trügerisch (deceitful, deceptive, elusive, elusorily, elusory, fallacious, fallaciously, false, illusionary, illusive, phantasmic, specious, treacherous). (various references)

Hebrew		משל�" (allegory, delusive, fable, illusory, proverb), מטע�" (delusive, fallacious, illusory, misleading, specious). (various references)

Hungarian		megtévesztõ (deceptive, delusive, dummy, fallacious), csalóka (delusive, elusive, fallacious, illusive, illusory, misleading, phantasmagoric, vain). (various references)

Pig Latin		elusoryday

Romanian		înşelãtor (ambidexter, cheat, colourable, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, double-dealer, manipulator, mendacious, specious). (various references)

Russian		обманчивый (captious, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, double meaning, double-meaning, illusive, misleading, specious), иллюзорный (delusive, illusive, illusory). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		obmanljiv (deceptive, delusive). (various references)

Spanish		ilusorio (delusive, elusive, illusive, illusory, phantom, unreal, unrealistic), engañoso (deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, delusive, dishonest, fallacious, false, guileful, misleading, treacherous, wrong). (various references)

Swedish		vilseledande (deceitful, deceptive, delusive, fallacious), illusorisk (delusive, illusive, illusory, phantasmal), bedräglig (cheated, colorable, colourable, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, elusive, fallacious, false, fraudulent, illusive, illusory, underhand). (various references)

Ukranian		ілюзорний (delusive, elusory, illusive, illusory, phantasmal), що вводить в оману (deceptive, delusive), обманливий (captious, catchy, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, elusory, fallacious, misleading), нереальний (aerial, aeriform, airy, delusive, imaginary, unreal, unsubstantial, vaporous). (various references)

Vietnamese		lừa gạt (deceiful, delusive), bịp bợm hão huyền (delusive), đánh lừa (brown, colourable, delusive, illusive). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Delusory" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Delacour, Delaford, Delecour, Delicari, desulory. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "delusory" (pronounced 'De*lu"so*ry'): Abbreviatory, Abditory, Abjuratory, Ablutionary, Absolutory, Absolvatory, Acceleratory, Acclamatory, Accusatory, Accustomary, Acetary, Acetimetry, Acidimetry, Acoumetry, Actino-chemistry, Actinometry, Actuary, Additionary, Additory, Adhortatory, Adiaphory, Adjuratory, Adjutory, Admaxillary, Adminiculary, Admissory, Admonitory, Adry, Adstrictory, Adulatory, Advisory, Advocatory, Aerometry, Affirmatory, Alary, Alchemistry, Alcoholometry, Alcoometry, Aldermanry, Aleatory, Aleberry, Alimentary, Alkalimetry, Allegory, Alleviatory, Allodiary, Allusory, Almonry, Almry, Altimetry. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-l-o-r-s-u-y"
	-1 letter: elusory, yodlers.
	-2 letters: dorsel, dourly, douser, louder, loured, loused, odyles, resold, roused, rudely, solder, sorely, souled, soured, sourly, surely, uredos, yodels, yodler, yodles.
	-3 letters: doers, doles, doser, douse, druse, duels, dulse, dures, duros, dyers, euros, leuds, lodes, lords, lores, loser, lours, loury, louse, lousy, ludes, lured, lures, lyres, lysed, odyle, odyls, older, orles.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-l-o-r-s-u-y"
	+1 letter: desultory.
	+2 letters: decorously, desirously, roundelays.
	+3 letters: credulously, dangerously, deliriously, delusionary, desultorily, dexterously, murderously, ponderously, scoundrelly, unsoldierly.
	+4 letters: adulterously, bodybuilders, cadaverously, groundlessly, horrendously, indecorously, perfidiously, resoundingly, slanderously, surefootedly, thunderously, tremendously.
	+5 letters: adventurously, deleteriously, hyaluronidase, hydrocephalus, incredulously, odoriferously, subordinately.
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