Elusive \E*lu"sive\, a.
Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly
escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.
[1913 Webster]
Elusive of the bridal day, she gives
Fond hopes to all, and all with hopes deceives. --Pope.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
elusive
adj 1: difficult to describe; "a haunting elusive odor"
2: skillful at eluding capture; "a cabal of conspirators, each
more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline [syn: evasive]
3: be difficult to detect or grasp by the mind; "his whole
attitude had undergone a subtle change"; "a subtle
difference"; "that elusive thing the soul" [syn: subtle]
WordNet (r) 2.0
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "elusive":
baffling, cagey, elusory, evanescent, evasive, fleeting, fugitive,
impalpable, imponderable, incomprehensible, indefinable,
insubstantial, intangible, malingering, mysterious, phantom,
shifty, shirking, slippery, transitory, tricky
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
evasive, subtle
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