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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
But can these bring Delhi's elusive blue skies back?
Until recently, details about this group's most distant past have been elusive.
Their cousin sign, Aquarius, often shoulders the reputation of being the unicorn of the zodiac, but it is Sagittarius that is just as, and sometimes more so, elusive and audacious.
But despite attempts from the best scientists and philosophers, what color truly is, if it’s even anything tangible, remains elusive.
Even the tree that marks the spot where they’re supposed to meet the elusive Godot is like something out of an art installation.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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