Elusive - Definition
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]