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Meaning of 'elusive' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Elusive [ a.]
- Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.

Meaning of 'elusive' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . elusive [ s]
Meaning (1):
- making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
Example in sentence:
  • a baffling problem;
  • a problematic situation at home;
  • I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast
Meaning (2):
- skillful at eluding capture
Example in sentence:
  • a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist
Meaning (3):
- difficult to describe
Example in sentence:
  • a haunting elusive odor
Meaning (4):
- difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze
Example in sentence:
  • a subtle difference;
  • his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change;
  • that elusive thing the soul

Nearby Words:

elucidate elucidated elucidating elucidation elucidative elucidator elucidatory eluctate eluctation elucubrate

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