elusive
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1 elusive
Difficult to describe.
Roget 545: deceived etc. v.; deceiving &c.; cunning etc. 702; prestigious†, prestigiatory†; deceptive, deceptious†; deceitful, ... meer laten zien
Roget 623: unsought, unattempted; avoiding etc. v.; neutral, shy of etc. (unwilling) 603; elusive, evasive; fugitive, runaway; ... meer laten zien
Roget 773: violating etc. v.; lawless, transgressive; elusive, evasive. unfulfilled etc. (fulfill) etc. 772.
2 elusive
Skillful at eluding capture.
3 elusive
Difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze:
— That elusive thing the soul.
synoniem: subtle.
4 elusive
Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe.
synoniemen: baffling, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough.
Pools: problematyczny
Moby betekeniswoordenboek: baffling, cagey, elusory, evanescent, evasive, fleeting, fugitive, impalpable, imponderable, incomprehensible, indefinable, insubstantial, intangible, malingering, mysterious, phantom, shifty, shirking, slippery, transitory ... meer laten zien.
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