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Elusive

adjective

Difficult to describe.

Skillful at eluding capture.

Difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze. Synonym: subtle. "A subtle difference" , "That elusive thing the soul"

Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe. Synonyms: baffling, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough. "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast" , "A problematic situation at home"

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"Elusive" Quotes from Famous Books

... days later, and his bold step seemed justified. The directors were an elusive body, and even when got together they found it hard to act with anything like unanimity and despatch; but one afternoon Stephen Giles encountered Mr. Holbrook in the office of one of the hotels and was told that the plan was receiving favourable consideration and was ...

— Under the Skylights • Henry Blake Fuller

... work with children is indicated in the next article by the fact that "the subjects on which children seek information are as varied as those brought by older people, and the material is equally elusive." Miss Abby L. Sargent contributed this article to the Library ...

— Library Work with Children • Alice I. Hazeltine

... face the fact that Esteban's months of prison fare, the abuse, the neglect he had suffered in Spanish hands, had left him little more than a living corpse. It seemed as if fever had burned him out, or else some dregs of disease still lingered in his system and had all but quenched that elusive spark which for want of a ...

— Rainbow's End • Rex Beach

... She did not explain that elusive answer. "But it don't matter about how I feel. When he comes back I've got to do ...

— The Fighting Edge • William MacLeod Raine

... have dozed five minutes or fifteen—long enough at least to leave its tantalising effect of sleep desperately desirable, mockingly elusive, almost grasped, whisked beyond grasping. And with this he was aware of something even less tangible, a sense of something amiss, of something vaguely wrong, as of an evil spirit stalking furtively through the darkened labyrinth of the ship ... as impalpable ...

— The False Faces • Vance, Louis Joseph

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