Delusive vs Obfuscate - What's the difference?
delusive | obfuscate |
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 make dark; overshadow
To deliberately make more confusing in order to conceal the truth.
(computing) To alter code while preserving its behavior but concealing its structure and intent.
As adjectives the difference between delusive and obfuscate
is that delusive is producing delusions while obfuscate is (obsolete) obfuscated; darkened; obscured.As a verb obfuscate is
to make dark; overshadow.delusive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It seemed calculated to suggest ideas she had no intention to suggest — ideas delusive and disturbing.
obfuscate
English
Verb
(obfuscat)- Before leaving the scene, the murderer set a fire to obfuscate any evidence of his or her identity.
- We need to obfuscate these classes before we ship the final release.