delusory
- s causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true
a delusory pleasure
- The medieval and the delusory lay all around him in his youth.
- Now the bedroom scenes smolder -- then ignite so brightly that Kim's faithful years-long wait for reunion and Chris' tormented dreams do not seem like self-delusory claptrap.
- All his nightmares of rejection recurred: he suffered fugues of persecution in which delusory daggers and imaginary nooses pursued him.