elusive
Difficult to find or catch.
Latin
Difficult to find or catch.
adjective [ eh-LOO-siv ]
Tending to evade grasp or pursuit; difficult to find, catch, or achieve.
- 🖊️ In the dimly lit room, the truth remained elusive, like a shadow that slips through your fingers.
- 🖊️ Despite numerous attempts, the hacker's identity remained elusive to the cybersecurity team.
- 🖊️ Is happiness truly elusive, or do we simply not recognize it when it arrives?
- 🖊️ The butterfly danced in the air, forever elusive.
- 🖊️ If I were to find the elusive treasure, I would share it with the world.
- 🖊️ The elusive nature of dark matter continues to baffle scientists.
- 🖊️ Her smile was elusive, a fleeting glimpse of joy in a sea of sorrow.
- 🖊️ The elusiveness of peace in the Middle East has been a persistent challenge for decades.
- 🤝 evasive, slippery, shifty
- ⚔️ accessible, obtainable, reachable
Hard to define or describe.
adjective [ eh-LOO-siv ]
Difficult to define, describe, or understand; not easily grasped mentally.
- 🖊️ The concept of time is elusive, slipping through our fingers like grains of sand.
- 🖊️ Why is happiness so elusive in a world filled with so many distractions?
- 🖊️ In the dimly lit room, the truth remained elusive, a shadow dancing just out of reach.
- 🤝 ambiguous, indefinable, puzzling
- ⚔️ clear, definite, obvious