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Definition: Illusionary |
IllusionaryAdjective1. Marked by or producing illusion; "illusionary stage effects". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: IllusionarySynonym: illusional (adj). (additional references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
illusionary mask | 6 |
earring illusionary | 4 |
illusionary | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "illusionary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | é"™è§‰æ€§. (various references) | |
German | trügerisch (deceitful, deceptive, delusory, elusive, elusorily, elusory, fallacious, fallaciously, false, illusive, phantasmic, specious, treacherous). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | illusionaryay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Illusionary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: allusionary, Illuminarc. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "illusionary" (pronounced i'luw"zhune'rē) |
| 8 | -l uw" zh u n e' r ē | exclusionary. |
| 6 | -zh u n e' r ē | diversionary, visionary. |
| 5 | -u n e' r ē | bicentenary, cardiopulmonary, cautionary, centenary, concessionary, confectionary, confectionery, coronary, counterrevolutionary, culinary, deflationary, dictionary, disciplinary, discretionary, disinflationary, evolutionary, expansionary, expeditionary, extraordinary, functionary, imaginary, inflationary, interdisciplinary, luminary, mercenary, missionary, noninflationary, ordinary, preliminary, probationary, pulmonary, reactionary, recessionary, revolutionary, seminary, stationary, stationery, urinary, veterinary. |
| 4 | -n e' r ē | quaternary. |
| 3 | -e' r ē | actuary, adversary, ancillary, apothecary, arbitrary, aviary, beneficiary, Blackberry, blueberry, budgetary, capillary, Cassowary, cemetery, cometary, commentary, commissary, Constabulary, contemporary, corollary, cranberry, customary, depositary, Dewberry, dietary, dignitary, Dogberry, dromedary, dysentery, emissary, epistolary, estuary, fiduciary, formulary, fragmentary, funerary, gooseberry, hackberry, hereditary, honorary, Huckleberry, interplanetary, involuntary, itinerary, judiciary, lapidary, legendary, library, literary, military, momentary, monastery, monetary, mortuary, mulberry, necessary, nonmilitary, obituary, paramilitary, pecuniary, pituitary, planetary, primary, proprietary, raspberry, Rosemary, salutary, sanctuary, sanitary, savagery, secondary, secretary, sedentary, semilegendary, solitary, statuary, strawberry, subsidiary, temporary, Tilbury, topiary, tributary, undersecretary, unitary, unnecessary, unsanitary, vocabulary. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-i-l-l-n-o-r-s-u-y" | |
-2 letters: insularly, lunisolar. | |
-3 letters: allusion, illusion, illusory, sailorly. | |
-4 letters: insular, liaison, lousily, noisily, rainily, raisiny, sirloin, surlily, unrolls, uranyls, urinals. | |
-5 letters: aiolis, airily, aliyos, alloys, aloins, ariosi, arsino, inlays, insoul, llanos, lorans, lunars, norias, nosily, oilily, orally, raisin, rayons, riyals, rosily, rosiny, royals, sailor, snarly, souari, sourly, synura, unlays, unroll, uranyl, urials, urinal, yulans. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-i-l-l-n-o-r-s-u-y" | |
+3 letters: vaingloriously. | |
+4 letters: inquisitorially. | |
+5 letters: journalistically, jurisdictionally. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6C 6C 75 73 69 6F 6E 61 72 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. .-.. .-.. ..- ... .. --- -. .- .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101100 01101100 01110101 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I l l u s i o n a r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006C 006C 0075 0073 0069 006F 006E 0061 0072 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4378788785758180678491 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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