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  • elusive — I adjective abstruse, apt to flee, baffling, difficult, difficult to catch, difficult to comprehend, difficult to understand, eluding clear perception, elusory, enigmatic, equivocal, escaping, evanescent, evasive, fleeting, fugitive, hard to… …   Law dictionary

  • elusive — adj. 1 difficult to find or catch; tending to elude. 2 difficult to remember or recall. 3 (of an answer etc.) avoiding the point raised; seeking to elude. Derivatives: elusively adv. elusiveness n …   Useful english dictionary

  • elusive — adjective Date: 1719 tending to elude: as a. tending to evade grasp or pursuit < elusive prey > b. hard to comprehend or define < an elusive concept > c. hard to isolate or identify < a haunting elusive aroma > • elusively adverb • elusiveness …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • Elusive — E*lu sive, a. Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious. [1913 Webster] Elusive of the bridal day, she gives Fond hopes to all, and all with hopes deceives. Pope. {E*lu… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Elusively — Elusive E*lu sive, a. Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious. [1913 Webster] Elusive of the bridal day, she gives Fond hopes to all, and all with hopes deceives. Pope.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Elusiveness — Elusive E*lu sive, a. Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious. [1913 Webster] Elusive of the bridal day, she gives Fond hopes to all, and all with hopes deceives. Pope.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Elusoriness — Elusory E*lu so*ry, a. [LL. elusorius.] Tending to elude or deceive; evasive; fraudulent; fallacious; deceitful; deceptive. {E*lu so*ri*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Elusory — E*lu so*ry, a. [LL. elusorius.] Tending to elude or deceive; evasive; fraudulent; fallacious; deceitful; deceptive. {E*lu so*ri*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • elusory — e lu·so·ry || uːsÉ™rɪ adj. tending to elude; evasive; fraudulent; deceitful; deceptive …   English contemporary dictionary

  • elusive — [ē lo͞osə rē, i lo͞osə rēē lo͞o′siv, ilo͞o′siv] adj. [< L elusus (see ELUSION) + IVE] 1. tending to elude 2. hard to grasp or retain mentally; baffling: Also Rare elusory [ē lo͞osə rē, i lo͞osə rē] elusively adv. elusiveness n …   English World dictionary

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