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Textual thesaurus for "elusive"

(adj) tough, baffling, problematic, problematical, knotty

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


(adj) subtle

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