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Meaning of elusive

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  elusive
      adj 1: difficult to describe; "a haunting elusive odor"
      2: skillful at eluding capture; "a cabal of conspirators, each
         more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline
      3: 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" [syn: {elusive},
         {subtle}]
      4: 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" [syn: {baffling}, {elusive}, {knotty}, {problematic},
         {problematical}, {tough}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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