What does ELUSIVE mean?

Definitions for ELUSIVE
ɪˈlu sɪv; -sə ri, -zə-elu·sive

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. elusiveadjective

    difficult to describe

    "a haunting elusive odor"

  2. elusiveadjective

    skillful at eluding capture

    "a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline

  3. elusive, subtleadjective

    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"

  4. baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, toughadjective

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. elusiveadjective

    evading capture, comprehension or remembrance

    The elusive criminal was arrested

  2. elusiveadjective

    rarely seen

  3. elusiveadjective

    difficult to describe

    A precise definition of diarrhea is elusive (Robbin's pathology, 8th ed)

  4. Etymology: From elusus past participle of eludo

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Elusiveadjective

    Practising elusion; using arts to escape.

    Etymology: from elude.

    Elusive of the bridal day, she gives
    Fond hopes to all, and all with hopes deceives. Alexander Pope, Odyss.

Wikipedia

  1. Elusive

    Elusive was the first single for British singer-songwriter Scott Matthews and was released on 18 September 2006. The single received much airplay from BBC Radio DJs Jo Whiley, Dermot O'Leary and Zane Lowe between 7 and 10 August. Lowe also played "Elusive" once each night as his chosen Single of the Week. Matthews also visited the station to perform "Elusive" and other songs from the album in May and August 2006. In May 2007, he won the Ivor Novello Award for "Best Song Musically and Lyrically" which saw "Elusive" beat strong competition from the likes of the Arctic Monkeys. The track was used in 2008 by UK television company Channel 4 for the advertising campaign surrounding the final season of The Sopranos, which aired exclusively on their digital channel E4. "Elusive" was covered by Lianne La Havas on her 2012 debut LP Is Your Love Big Enough?.

ChatGPT

  1. elusive

    Elusive refers to something or someone that is difficult to find, understand, describe, or achieve, often avoiding or escaping from discovery, capture, comprehension, or definitive analysis. This term might pertain to concepts, physical objects, people, or even abstract notions such as success, happiness, or perfection.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Elusiveadjective

    tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ELUSIVE in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ELUSIVE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of ELUSIVE in a Sentence

  1. Tony Jones:

    Were all selfless, we all want the team to win. I think we both have similar types of games but show them in different ways. Hes elusive but hes also powerful. Im powerful but elusive.

  2. Zhou Liang:

    Structured products could be quite tricky, you don't know how much you've paid for those expensive derivative transactions. The prospects of high returns, could be quite elusive.

  3. Northrop Frye:

    It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

  4. French Open:

    I think tomorrow is a bigger moment for Simona Halep than it is for American Sloane Stephens, simona Halep has had three crushing losses in Grand Slam finals, Simona Halep is still searching for the elusive Grand Sam title.

  5. Muriel Spark:

    One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must live it to the full.

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