delusive
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.40 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Inappropriate to reality; forming part of a delusion.
Example Sentences
- "The poor thing was finally got off, with several delusive assurances that his absence should be short: that Mr. Edgar and Cathy would visit him, and other promises, equally ill-founded, which I invented and reiterated at intervals throughout the way."
- "[I]t seemed calculated to suggest ideas she had no intention to suggest: ideas delusive and disturbing."
- "I opened my eyes, I rubbed them, and found I was not asleep but thoroughly awake. Nevertheless, I felt my head and breast to satisfy myself whether it was I myself who was there or some empty delusive phantom; but touch, feeling, the collected thoughts that passed through my mind, all convinced me that I was the same then and there that I am this moment."
Etymology
Etymology tree English delude Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English delusive From delude + -ive.
Inflected Forms
more delusive (comparative)
most delusive (superlative)