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Definition of elusive:
Synonyms:
tough, commemorative, hard, evanescent, fugitive, conscious, pernicious, impalpable, trying, demanding, tangled, complicated, snarled, knotty, ruffianly, be an effort, temporary, critical, knobbed, arduous, toughened, tortuous, faint, intractable, sly, knotted, problematic, problematical, intangible, rugged, testing, subtle, involved, debatable, dimly, gnarled, baffling, tricky, blurred, gnarly, punishing, obscure, dim, unidentifiable, foggy, evasive, slippery, convoluted, thorny, equivocal, taxing, challenging, imponderable, sturdy, insidious, etched, bad, intolerable, awkward, catchy, slippery, difficult, snarly, fleeting, impossible, artful.
Usage examples:
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Around, above us he flies in wide, ambitious circles, the while we are enveloped, as it were, in that hurried chippering sound- fine, elusive, now near, now distant.
- "Ways of Nature", John Burroughs. -
- "The Keeper of the Door", Ethel M. Dell.
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Oh, but it's other things- lots of them; vague, elusive things that I can't put my finger on.
- "The Road to Understanding", Eleanor H. Porter.