elusive

elusive /i'lu:siv/ (elusory) /i'lu:səri/
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elusive

Từ điển Collocation

elusive adj.

VERBS be, prove Further movie roles have proved somewhat elusive for the young actor. | become | remain

ADV. extremely, very | rather, somewhat | strangely Sleep was strangely elusive. | notoriously Truth is a notoriously elusive quality.


Từ điển WordNet

    adj.

  • difficult to describe

    a haunting elusive odor

  • skillful at eluding capture; "a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline; evasive
  • be difficult to detect or grasp by the mind; subtle

    his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change

    a subtle difference

    that elusive thing the soul


English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary


syn.: evasive subtle