difficult to find, define, or achieve:
Eric, as elusive as ever, was nowhere to be found. * the elusive concept of 'literature' * A solution to the problem of toxic waste is proving elusive in the extreme.
elusively adverb
elusiveness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for elusive is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is elusive a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, elusive is tagged as adjective.
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