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Elusive

//ɪˈl(j)uː.sɪv// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Evading capture, comprehension or remembrance.

    "The elusive criminal was arrested"

  2. 2
    Difficult to make precise.

    "A precise definition of diarrhea is elusive"

  3. 3
    Rarely seen.

    "While you're sniffing the trunks of the ponderosas to see if they're butterscotch, vanilla, strawberry, or the elusive chocolate variety, watch for Brown Creepers, an elusive variety of bird."

Adjective
  1. 1
    skillful at eluding capture wordnet
  2. 2
    making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe wordnet
  3. 3
    difficult to describe wordnet
  4. 4
    difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze wordnet

Etymology

From Latin elusus, past participle of eludo (“to parry a blow, to deceive”).

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