lud-, ludi-, lus- +

Tending to mislead or to deceive; deceptive.

In a deceptive and unrealistic manner.

1. Tending to mislead or to deceive; deceptive.
2. Having the nature of a delusion and likely to mislead or to delude someone.

1. To cause someone to realize that an ideal is false or a belief is mistaken.
2. The condition, or fact, of being disenchanted.

A freeing, or a being freed, from illusion or conviction; disenchantment.

1. To avoid, escape from, dodge, get away from, evade as by daring, cleverness, or skill: "The burglar eluded the police by hiding in a dumpster. The suspect continues to elude the police."
2. To escape the understanding or grasp of: "This is a name that has always eluded me."
3. Etymology: "to make a fool of", from Latin eludere, "to escape from, to make a fool of"; from ex- "out, away" + ludere, "to play".

1. Escaping by dexterity or stratagem; such as, a blow, an attack, a danger, or a difficulty.
2. Evading compliance with, or fulfillment of, a law, an order, a demand, a request, an obligation, etc.
3. Slipping away from, escaping adroitly from a person's grasp or pursuit; literally, and figuratively; evading (curiosity, vigilance, etc.).

The action of escaping dexterously from (danger, pursuit, etc.); of evading (an argument, a command, law, or obligation).

1. Tending to elude perception or comprehension; including being difficult to understand, define, or to identify.
2. Difficult to describe; not easily recalled in mind or memory.

Characterized by being difficult to describe, to find, to achieve, or to remember.

1. Tending to elude (a danger, argument, law, etc.); of the nature of an evasion or subterfuge.
2. As an object of thought; that which eludes the mental grasp; that which one cannot "get hold of".

1. To trick, impose upon, to deceive with false hopes.
2. To play upon by artifice; to deceive; to mock; to excite and to disappoint the hopes of.

Someone who illudes; or who is a mocker, a deceiver.

1. A deception; a false, although often pleasant, notion; a fancy, a delusion, misconception: The illusions of youth fade with maturity.
2. Semblance, misleading visual impression, optical illusion; hallucination, false image: Mirrors give an illusion of more space in a room.
3. A deceptive appearance; something that seems to be something else or something that seems to exist but actually does not: He had the illusion that the woman was floating above the bed.
4. The fact or condition of being deceived or deluded by appearances, or an instance of this.
5. A mental state involving the attribution of reality to what is unreal.
6. Etymology: "act of deception", from Old French illusion, "a mocking"; from Latin illusionem, illusio, "a mocking, a jesting, an irony"; from illudere, "to mock at"; literally, "to play with", from in-, "at" + ludere, "to play".

Characterized by illusions; of the nature of an illusion; illusory.