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   elusive

   /ɪˈl(j)uːsɪv/

   adjective

   • 1. difficult to find, catch, or achieve: "success will become ever more elusive" Similar difficult to catch/finddifficult to track downevasiveslipperyshiftyinformal:always on the movecagey
   • ▪ difficult to remember: "the elusive thought he had had moments before"

   Word Origin early 18th century: from Latin elus- ‘eluded’ (from the verb eludere) + -ive.

   Derivatives

   • 1. elusively adverb
   • 2. elusiveness noun

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   Synonyms for ELUSIVE: slippery, transient, evasive, fleeting, inaccessible, temporary, passing, fugitive; Antonyms of ELUSIVE: available, convenient, attainable, obtainable, accessible, reachable, approachable.

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   making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe. synonyms: baffling, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough. difficult, hard.

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   Synonyms for ELUSIVE: slippery, tricky, evanescent, fugitive, baffling, evasive, intangible, equivocal, subtle, slippery; Antonyms for ELUSIVE: attracting, enticing, inviting, encountering, facing, confronting.

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    difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze. "his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change"; "a subtle difference"; "that elusive thing the soul". Synonyms: pernicious, baffling, problematic, knotty, tough, insidious, subtle, problematical. Antonyms: easy, identifiable, artless, tangible, palpable.

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    Synonyms for elusive in Free Thesaurus. Antonyms for elusive. 38 synonyms for elusive: difficult to catch, tricky, slippery, difficult to find, evasive, shifty, indefinable, puzzling, fleeting, subtle, baffling, indefinite.