false hopesnoun [ plural ]
uk/ˌfɒls ˈhəʊps/us/ˌfɑːls ˈhoʊps/confident feelings about something that might not be true:
I don't want to raise any false hopes, but I believe your son is still alive.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unreal things and unreality
- cloud cuckoo land
- delusion
- delusional
- dummy
- escapism
- falsity
- fantasy
- fictionalize
- figment
- flight of fancy idiom
- illusion
- la-la land
- make-believe
- never-never land
- phantasm
- pie
- pie in the sky idiom
- pious
- unreal
- untruth
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