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illusory

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++il·lu·so·ry /ɪˈluːsəri/ (also illusive /ɪˈluːsɪv/) adjective 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。
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illusorySigns 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.
il·lu·so·ry adjectiveChineseSyllable
seeming but or to false Corpus be real


illusory
illusory /ɪˈluːsəri/ (also il‧lu‧sive /ɪˈluːsɪv/) adjective formal
false but seeming to be real or true:
    First impressions can often prove illusory.


il·lu·soryBrE /ɪˈluːsəri/ 🔊NAmE /ɪˈluːsəri/ 🔊 adjective (formal) not real, although seeming to be 虚假的;幻觉的;迷惑人的an illusory sense of freedom虚幻的自由感