So, ilusionar doesn't mean what I thought it did

Question

I realized it didn't make sense in this song:

Estoy enamorado (Simplemente)

Te lo quiero confesar (Te lo queria decir)

Totalmente ilusionado

Me la paso pensandote nunca voy a soltarte (Rumba)

Not illusioned / decieved ( I thought it was like engañar)

From our dictionary:

1. (esperanzar)

   • ilusionar a alguien (con algo) -> to build up somebody's hopes (about something)

2. to excite, to thrill (emocionar) ilusionarse

pronomial verb

1. to get one's hopes up (esperanzarse)(con about)

2. to get excited (emocionarse)(con about)

How about that? So it means excited like with emocionar..... isn't that right?

Gracias

By the way, WIsin y Yandel definitivamente son los líderes. ;-) - DJ_Huero, Apr 15, 2011

Answer 1

jeezle said

How about that? So it means excited

Here are some examples:

me ilusiona mucho - I'm very excited about it;

No la ilusiones - Don't raise her hopes

Answer 2

Just adding a bit to Heidita and Eddy's excellent answers: I think of "Ilusionar" as "looking forward to..." It's the expectation you create in your mind about something good that you hope to see or get.

Gekko, when you have been married as long as I have, It's never going to happen, hehe. - Eddy, Apr 15, 2011

I bet that if you're walking alone by the park, and a pretty young lass skimpily dressed starts making eyes at you, te vas a ilusionar todo. It won't lead anywhere, of course, but the "ilusión" part will work just fine. ;-) - Gekkosan, Apr 15, 2011

Answer 3

To have illusions of grandeur. Means that they are not real in this English expression.

Put a bit more crudely - to not have a pot to piss in.

Answer 4

I think that you were thinking of the word desilusionado which is disappointed, deceived, let down, etc.

Answer 5

Well, techniqually it is illusioned... what are hopes really, they are a wishful belief in something that is not yet so, nor seen. Therefore, hope is an illusion in itself, only difference is it's a good one and generally everyone's favorite.

Answer 6

Not illusioned / decieved ( I thought it was like engañar)

Right, this is not it.

EStoy ilusionada con Pedro: I have hopes, I am in love, I like...Pedro