Word Meanings - ILLUSIONIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One given to illusion; a visionary dreamer.
Related words: (words related to ILLUSIONIST)
- VISIONARY
1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given - ILLUSIONABLE
Liable to illusion. - DREAMER
1. One who dreams. 2. A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer. - ILLUSIONIST
One given to illusion; a visionary dreamer. - ILLUSION
A sensation originated by some external object, but so modified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder. Note: Some modern writers distinguish between an illusion and hallucination, - GIVEN
p. p. & a. from Give, v. - DIVISIONARY
Divisional. - DISILLUSION
The act or process of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom. Lowell. - PROVISIONARY
Provisional. Burke. - DISILLUSIONIZE
To disenchant; to free from illusion. "The bitter disillusionizing experience of postnuptial life." W. Black. - REVISIONAL; REVISIONARY
Of or pertaining to revision; revisory. - DAYDREAMER
One given to draydreams. - FORGIVENESS
1. The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses. Dan. ix. 9. In whom we have . . . the forgiveness of sin. Eph. i. 7. 2. Disposition to pardon; - DISILLUSIONMENT
The act of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.