Elusive

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  • adjective. Tending to elude capture, perception, comprehension, or memory.
  • adjective. Difficult to define or describe.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Eluding, or having a tendency to elude; hard to grasp or confine; slippery.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. evading capture, comprehension or remembrance
  • adjective. rarely seen
  • adjective. difficult to describe
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze
  • adjective. skillful at eluding capture
  • adjective. making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
  • adjective. difficult to describe
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