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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
Stability off the field is proving just as elusive as success on it.
The address enabled Luna’s hard-won spot in a subsidized preschool program, the family’s public benefits, access to Newman’s medical specialists and the elusive form of state health insurance — “straight Medi-Cal” — she needs for a transplant.
As anyone over 30 will attest, sleep can be elusive and trendy supplements from magnesium to melatonin only do so much.
The launch of Gemini 3 has handed Google an elusive victory: The company, for the first time in years, has pulled well ahead in the race to develop artificial intelligence.
Root was out for a duck in the first innings as he hunts an elusive first Test century in Australia.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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