elusory

ADJECTIVE

elusive

Synonyms

STRONGEST

ambiguous fleeting illusory incomprehensible puzzling slippery subtle tricky volatile

WEAK

baffling cagey deceitful deceptive difficult to catch equivocal evanescent fallacious fraudulent fugacious fugitive greasy imponderable indefinable insubstantial intangible misleading occult phantom shifty shy stonewalling transient transitory unspecific

Antonyms

STRONGEST

definite honest intelligible stable understandable

WEAK

attracting confronting encountering enticing facing inviting

ADJECTIVE

evasive

Synonyms

STRONGEST

ambiguous cagey deceptive false misleading unclear vague

WEAK

casuistic casuistical cunning devious dissembling elusive equivocating fugitive greasy indirect intangible lying oblique prevaricating shifty shuffling slippery sly sophistical stonewalling

Antonyms

STRONGEST

clear definite honest truthful

WEAK

direct forthright ready straight straightforward

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To stifle this cry in the dreaded populace of the Eternal City, the emperors imported grain largely from Egypt and Lybia, and distributed it at an elusory price, or gratuitously, to the people.

From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 by Various

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