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    Synonyms and Antonyms of delusive

    tending or having power to deceive
    • delusive promises of high-paying jobs for low-skilled workers
    Synonyms of delusive

    beguiling, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusory, fallacious, false, misleading, specious

    Words Related to delusive

    artful, crafty, cunning, devious, foxy, guileful, shady, shifty, slick, sly, sneaking, sneaky, subtile, subtle, trick, trickish, tricky, underhand, underhanded, wily

    inaccurate, incorrect, wrong

    bewildering, confounding, distracting, perplexing, puzzling

    ambidextrous, crooked, defrauding, dishonest, dissembling, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, fast, fraudulent, knavish, lying, mendacious, untrustworthy, untruthful

    bogus, counterfeit, fake, feigned, forged, jive [slang], phony (also phoney), sham, spurious

    insidious, perfidious, treacherous

    ambiguous, circuitous, equivocal, evasive

    artificial, backhanded, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, two-faced

    Near Antonyms of delusive

    candid, direct, foursquare, frank, free-spoken, open, openhearted, outspoken, plain, plainspoken, straight

    clarifying, elucidative, explanatory, illuminating

    revealing, revelatory

    honest, trustworthy, truthful

    Antonyms of delusive

    aboveboard, forthright, nondeceptive, straightforward

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