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English to English adjective
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Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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difficult to describe | | Example: a haunting elusive odor
source: wordnet30
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skillful at eluding capture | | Example: a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist
source: wordnet30
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difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze | | Example: his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change
a subtle difference
that elusive thing the soul
source: wordnet30
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making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | | Example: a baffling problem
I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast
a problematic situation at home
source: wordnet30
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