Inappropriate to reality; forming part of a delusion.
1849, Charlotte Brontë, ShirleyIt seemed calculated to suggest ideas she had no intention to suggest — ideas delusive and disturbing.
I opened my eyes, I rubbed them, and found I was not asleep but thoroughly awake. Nevertheless, I felt my head and breast to satisfy myself whether it was I myself who was there or some empty delusive phantom; but touch, feeling, the collected thoughts that passed through my mind, all convinced me that I was the same then and there that I am this moment.
