Delusive vs Delude - What's the difference?
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Producing delusions.
Delusional.
Inappropriate to reality; forming part of a delusion.
* 1849 , Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
* {{quote-Don Quixote, passage=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.
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To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.
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* Burke
(obsolete) To frustrate or disappoint.
* Dryden
As an adjective delusive
is producing delusions.As a verb delude is
to deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.delusive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It seemed calculated to suggest ideas she had no intention to suggest — ideas delusive and disturbing.
delude
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Verb
(delud)citation, page= , passage=Ralph Wiggum is generally employed as a bottomless fount of glorious non sequiturs, but in “I Love Lisa” he stands in for every oblivious chump who ever deluded himself into thinking that with persistence, determination, and a pure heart he can win the girl of his dreams. }}
- To delude the nation by an airy phantom.
- It deludes thy search.