Englishillusory
adjective
the comfort these theories give is illusory:
delusory, delusional, delusive;
illusionary, imagined, imaginary, fancied, nonexistent, unreal, hallucinatory;
sham, hollow, deceptive, deceiving, false, fallacious, fake, bogus, mistaken, erroneous, misleading, misguided, untrue, specious, fanciful, notional, chimerical;
rare illusive, Barmecide.
▷antonyms real, genuine.