ELUSIVE as ADJECTIVE

  1. Meaning
    • skillful at eluding capture
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    • a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist- David Kline
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  2. Meaning
    • difficult to describe
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    • a haunting elusive odor
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  3. Meaning
    • be difficult to detect or grasp by the mind
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    • his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change
    • a subtle difference
    • that elusive thing the soul
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