Based on or having the nature of an illusion:
— Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open decision that are staples of democracy.

synoniem: illusive.

Roget 546: untrue, false, phony, trumped up; void of foundation, without-foundation; fictive, far from the truth, false as dicer's oaths; unfounded, ben trovato [It], invented, fabulous, fabricated, forged; fictitious, factitious, supposititious, surreptitious; elusory^†, illusory; ironical; soi-disant [Fr.] etc. (misnamed) 565.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 545: deceived etc. v.; deceiving &c.; cunning etc. 702; prestigious^†, prestigiatory^†; deceptive, deceptious^†; deceitful, covinous^†; delusive, delusory; illusive, illusory; elusive, insidious, ad captandum vulgus [Lat.].    untrue etc. 546; mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide [Slang], pseudo, spurious, supposititious, so-called, pretended, feigned, trumped up, bogus, scamped, fraudulent, tricky, factitious bastard; surreptitious, illegitimate, contraband, adulterated, sophisticated; unsound, rotten at the core; colorable; disguised; meretricious, tinsel, pinchbeck, plated; catchpenny; Brummagem.    artificial, synthetic, ersatz [G.]; simulated etc. 544.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 515: imagined etc. v.; ben trovato [It]; air drawn, airbuilt^†.    imagining etc. v., imaginative; original, inventive, creative, fertile.    romantic, high flown, flighty, extravagant, fanatic, enthusiastic, unrealistic, Utopian, Quixotic.    ideal, unreal; in the clouds, in nubibus [Lat.]; unsubsantial^† etc. 4; illusory etc. (fallacious) 495.    fabulous, legendary; mythical, mythic, mythological; chimerical; imaginary, visionary; notional; fancy, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical^†; whimsical; fairy, fairy-like; gestic^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 495: erroneous, untrue, false, devoid of truth, fallacious, apocryphal, unreal, ungrounded, groundless; unsubstantial etc. 4; heretical etc. (heterodox) 984; unsound; illogical etc. 477.    inexact, unexact inaccurate^†, incorrect; indefinite etc. (uncertain) 475.    illusive, illusory; delusive; mock, ideal etc. (imaginary) 515; spurious etc. 545; deceitful etc. 544; perverted.    controvertible, unsustainable; unauthenticated, untrustworthy.    exploded, refuted; discarded.    in error, under an error etc. n.; mistaken etc. v.; tripping etc. v.; out, out in one's reckoning; aberrant; beside the mark, wide of the mark, wide of the truth, way off, far off; astray etc. (at fault) 475; on a false scent, on the wrong scent; in the wrong box, outside the ballpark; at cross purposes, all in the wrong; all out.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 4: unsubstantial; baseless, groundless; ungrounded; without foundation, having no foundation.    visionary etc. (imaginary) 515; immaterial etc. 137; spectral etc. 980; dreamy; shadowy; ethereal, airy; cloud built, cloud formed; gossamery, illusory, insubstantial, unreal.    vacant, vacuous; empty etc. 187; eviscerated; blank, hollow; nominal; null; inane.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 477: intuitive, instinctive, impulsive; independent of reason, anterior to reason; gratuitous, hazarded; unconnected.    unreasonable, illogical, false, unsound, invalid; unwarranted, not following; inconsequent, inconsequential; inconsistent; absonous^†, absonant^†; unscientific; untenable, inconclusive, incorrect; fallacious, fallible; groundless, unproved; non sequitur [Lat.], it does not follow.    deceptive, sophistical, jesuitical; illusive, illusory; specious, hollow, plausible, ad captandum [Lat.], evasive; irrelevant etc. 10.    weak, feeble, poor, flimsy, loose, vague.    irrational; nonsensical etc. (absurd) 497.    foolish etc. (imbecile) 499; frivolous, pettifogging, quibbling; finespun^†, overrefined^†.    at the end of one's tether, au bout de son latin.    ... meer laten zien

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