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elusive
adjective as in evasive, mysterious
Strongest matches
ambiguous, fleeting, illusory, incomprehensible, puzzling, slippery, subtle, tricky, volatile
Weak matches
baffling, cagey, deceitful, deceptive, difficult to catch, elusory, equivocal, evanescent, fallacious, fraudulent, fugacious, fugitive, greasy, imponderable, indefinable, insubstantial, intangible, misleading, occult, phantom, shifty, shy, stonewalling, transient, transitory, unspecific
Example Sentences
An elusive victory would allow him to make the case that the devastating war he unleashed nearly four years ago was worth it, after all.
Weighing up to 2 kg, it is both imposing and elusive.
Ocasek is both the book’s most compelling character and its most elusive.
He has stood in ten general elections and every devolved election for over a quarter of a century – and victory has remained elusive.
How these features combine to improve efficiency depends on human ingenuity, imagination, tenacity and that elusive thing called “tacit knowledge” that comes from experience.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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