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What is the adjective for delusional?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb delude which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

delusive
  1. Producing delusions.
  2. Delusional.
  3. Inappropriate to reality; forming part of a delusion.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. false, deceptive, misleading, imaginary, fanciful, illusory, fallacious, delusory, chimerical, fantastic, visionary, spurious, specious, deceitful, deceiving, deluding, beguiling, mistaken, illusive, ostensible, seeming, apparent, insubstantial, vain, misconceived, in error, unreal, fictitious, untrue, fake, imagined, hallucinatory, invented, phantasmal, sham, fictional, erroneous, phantasmic, fantastical, ideal, chimeric, bogus, dreamlike, suppositious, wrong, fabricated, made-up, phony, distorted, phantom … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “But we should be clear that we are doing so for reasons of justice and not in the delusive hope of greater security.”
      “They brought back piquantly appropriate or delusive answers, piquant enough to condemn the stories.”
      “Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive nature of things.”
deludable
  1. Capable of being deluded; gullible.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. easy, accommodating, permissive, acquiescent, cooperative, flexible, compliant, easygoing, easy-going, pliant, agreeable, docile, obliging, charitable, compassionate, deceivable, soft, clement, dupable, amenable, benign, biddable, complaisant, condoning, excusing, fleeceable, forbearing, forgiving, gentle, gullible, humouring, humoring, indulgent, lax, lenient, liberal, light, merciful, mild, moderate, mollycoddling, naive, pampering, pardoning, spoiling, submissive, susceptible, sympathetic, temperate, tractable … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “One could simply stop the argument there, dismiss the resurrection as a lie, and declare belief in the risen Jesus to be the product of a deludable mind.”
      “For well understanding the omniscience of his nature, he is not so ready to deceive himself, as to falsifie unto him whose cognition is no way deludable.”
delusional
  1. Suffering from or characterized by delusions
  2. Synonyms:
      3. unrealistic, confused, deranged, neurotic, paranoid, pretentious, senile
  3. Examples:
      4. “It takes a special kind of mindset to be this delusional in the face of cold, hard facts.”
      “We whistle, skipping to the car in a delusional, potentially ridiculous flitter.”
      “Her belief about the cough syrup, while seemingly not true, is not necessarily a belief that could arise only as a result of delusional thinking.”
deluded
  1. Being affected by delusions.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. mistaken, misinformed, misguided, misled, confused, disinformed, ill-advised, under a misapprehension, under wrong impression, deceived, misdirected, labouring under a misapprehension, led up the garden path, labouring under a delusion, faked-out, misconstrued, confounded, misjudged, misunderstood, misinterpreted, conned, gullible, tricked, betrayed, duped, fooled, bamboozled, hornswoggled, outfoxed, flimflammed, sucked in, snowed, wronged, swindled, hoodwinked, victimized, cheated, hoaxed, gulled, played, lured, had, snared, taken, baited, victimised, beguiled, ambushed … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Do not be deluded with this idea that one party is right and the other wrong.”
      “The deluded victim of quackery swallows this mixture as an infallible cure.”
      “If we have to allow this much cognitive delusion, however, why not attribute to the agent a deluded belief in moral responsibility?”
delusionary
  1. (psychology) Delusional.
delusory
  1. tending to delude
  2. Synonyms:
      3. deceptive, false, fallacious, misguided, mistaken, unfounded, beguiling, deceitful, deceiving, deluding, delusive, erroneous, misleading, specious, spurious, untrue, bogus, illusory, wrong, phony, phoney, fraudulent, fake, distorted, sham, inaccurate, sophistical, fishy, fictitious, counterfeit, fabricated, incorrect, unsound, dishonest, untruthful, concocted, insincere, inexact, faked, invented, illogical, mock, unreal, made up, casuistic, misrepresentative, forged, invalid, apocryphal, baseless … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Biocultural critics readily acknowledge that social power is unequally distributed and that public norms are sometimes delusory.”
      “In Buddhist thought, this feeling that we are the real thing, the most important person, the center of everything, is delusory.”
      “James acknowledges that there was something delusory about this ostensibly unified culture.”
deluding
  1. present participle of delude
  2. Synonyms:
      3. deceiving, fooling, hoodwinking, misinforming, misleading, misguiding, beguiling, bluffing, conning, duping, bamboozling, disinforming, hoaxing, scamming, snookering, tricking, cozening, suckering, swindling, cheating, gaffing, hornswoggling, illuding, snowing, betraying, buffaloing, burning, defrauding, gammoning, having, humbugging, juggling, kidding, outfoxing, spoofing, catching, gulling, imposing on, jiving, mousetrapping, taking in, having on, stringing along, faking out, leading on, sucking in, doing a number on, double-crossing, pulling one's leg, putting one over on … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “All we see and hear, feel and taste, think and do, during our whole being, is but the deluding appearance of a long dream whereof there is no reality.”
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