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What does illusive mean?

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Adjective
  1. Subject to or pertaining to an illusion, often used in the sense of an unrealistic expectation or an unreachable goal or outcome.
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She is seething with illusive fragmentary gold being bewitched typhlotic furtive much like a hovering sapphire embrasure or imaginal sanguinary.
The poor tax-collectors chasing after the illusive profit statement remind me of those silly fellows in pith helmets chasing butterflies.
Collectively they were called tergiversate particles because they were so ambiguous, misleading and illusive.
At this dream workshop in Pennsylvania, people learn how to remember, even influence those illusive nightly visions.
It is not the accuracy of figures, which is always illusive, that is in question, but the sequence of aids and their purpose.
That's right: for Burke, truths are illusive and illusions are, in an important sense, true.

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