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elusive 音標拼音: [ɪl'usɪv] a. 難懂的,易忘的,難捉摸的 難懂的,易忘的,難捉摸的 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" [ synonym: { 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" [ synonym: { baffling}, { elusive}, { knotty}, { problematic}, { problematical}, { tough}] 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] 21 Moby Thesaurus words for " elusive": baffling, cagey, elusory, evanescent, evasive, fleeting, fugitive, impalpable, imponderable, incomprehensible, indefinable, insubstantial, intangible, malingering, mysterious, phantom, shifty, shirking, slippery, transitory, tricky
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