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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
baffling, cagey, elusory, evanescent, evasive, fleeting, fugitive, impalpable, imponderable, incomprehensible, indefinable, insubstantial, intangible, malingering, mysterious, phantom, shifty, shirking, slippery, transitory, tricky
Dictionary Results for elusive:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
elusive
    adj 1: difficult to describe; "a haunting elusive odor"
    2: skillful at eluding capture; "a cabal of conspirators, each
       more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline
    3: difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze; "his
       whole attitude had undergone a subtle change"; "a subtle
       difference"; "that elusive thing the soul" [syn: elusive,
       subtle]
    4: making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or
       believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of
       what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at
       home" [syn: baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic,
       problematical, tough]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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"sive*ly, adv. -- E*lu"sive*ness, n.
   [1913 Webster]

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