elusive
Speech parts
1. elusive - Adjective
2. elusive - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.
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Examples
One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality except the one we remember......
...when I started doing chemistry, I did it the way I fished – for the excitement, the discovery, the adventure, for going after the most elusive catch imaginable in uncharted seas.
A leopard is such an elusive animal that it can only be caught by the combined force of a man and his father-in-law.
A leopard is such an elusive animal.