eng: elusive

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Meaning
means(adjective) difficult to describe; "a haunting elusive odor"
elusive
means(adjective) skillful at eluding capture; "a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline
elusive
means(adjective) 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"
elusive, subtle
means(adjective) 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"
baffling, problematic, problematical, knotty, elusive, tough

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