WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
de•lu•sive
(di lo̅o̅′siv),USA pronunciation adj.
de•lu′sive•ly, adv.
de•lu′sive•ness, n.
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025- tending to delude; misleading;
deceptive:a delusive reply. - of the nature of a delusion;
false;
unreal:a delusive belief.
- delus(ion) + -ive 1595–1605
de•lu′sive•ness, n.
de•lu•sion /dɪˈluʒən/USA pronunciation
n.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- the state of being deluded:[uncountable]suffering from delusion.
- Psychiatry a false belief or opinion:[countable]delusions of grandeur.
- See illusion.
de•lu•sion
(di lo̅o̅′zhən),USA pronunciation n.
de•lu′sion•al, de•lu′sion•ar′y, adj.
- an act or instance of deluding.
- the state of being deluded.
- Psychiatrya false belief or opinion:delusions of grandeur.
- Psychiatrya fixed false belief that is resistant to reason or confrontation with actual fact:a paranoid delusion.
- Latin dēlūsiōn- (stem of dēlūsiō), equivalent. to dēlūs(us) (past participle of dēlūdere; see delude) + -iōn- -ion
- late Middle English 1375–1425
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged deception. See illusion.
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