This species of deer is so elusive that only two have ever been photographed in the wild.
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Elusive
//ɪˈl(j)uː.sɪv//
Synonyms for "elusive" (35 found)
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Closest matches (7)
Strong matches (11)
Related words (17)
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Synonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
8 entriessimilar
7 entriesTranslations
60 translations across 24 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- متملص adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
- مراوغ adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
Bulgarian
2 entries- изплъзващ се adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
- неуловим adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
Catalan
1 entries- elusiu adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
Chinese
3 entries- 难以捉摸 adj (difficult to describe)
- 难以描述的 adj (difficult to describe)
- 难以琢磨 adj (difficult to describe)
Czech
1 entries- nepolapitelný adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
Dutch
2 entries- moeilijk beschrijfbaar adj (difficult to describe)
- ongrijpbaar adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
Esperanto
1 entries- nekaptebla adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
Estonian
2 entries- ebamäärane adj (difficult to describe)
- puiklik adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
Finnish
4 entries- hämärä adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
- vaikea kuvailla adj (difficult to describe)
- vaikeasti kuvailtava adj (difficult to describe)
- vaikeasti tavoiteltava adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
French
4 entries- ambigu adj (difficult to describe)
- insaisissable adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
- obscur adj (difficult to describe)
- rare adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
German
4 entries- flüchtig adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
- schwer fassbar adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
- schwer fassbar adj (difficult to describe)
- schwer zu beschreiben adj (difficult to describe)
Greek
2 entries- ασύλληπτος adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
- φευγαλέος adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
Hebrew
1 entries- חֲמַקְמָק adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
Ido
1 entries- nekaptebla adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
Italian
1 entries- elusivo adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
Latin
1 entries- fugāx adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
Persian
3 entries- فراری adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
- مرموز adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
- گریزان adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
Polish
2 entries- nieuchwytny adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
- nieuchwytny adj (difficult to describe)
Portuguese
3 entries- elusivo adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
- elusivo adj (difficult to describe)
- fugidio adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
Romanian
1 entries- evaziv adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
Russian
3 entries- неуловимый adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
- труднодостижимый adj (difficult to describe)
- ускользающий adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- lukav adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
- neuhvatljiv adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
- prepreden adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
Spanish
4 entries- ambiguo adj (difficult to describe)
- elusivo adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
- escurridizo adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
- esquivo adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
Swedish
1 entries- gäckande adj (evading capture, comprehension or remembrance)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
Tom is elusive.
Source: tatoeba (2202804)
You're elusive.
Source: tatoeba (2202805)
Tom is very elusive.
Source: tatoeba (2273593)
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