From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Elusive \E*lu"sive\, adjective Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.
Elusive of the bridal day, she gives Fond hopes to all, and all with hopes deceives. --Pope. -- {E*lu"sive*ly}, adverb -- {E*lu"sive*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
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 [syn: {evasive}]
3: be difficult to detect or grasp by the mind; "his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change"; "a subtle difference"; "that elusive thing the soul" [syn: {subtle}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "elusive": baffling, cagey, elusory, evanescent, evasive, fleeting, fugitive, impalpable, imponderable, incomprehensible, indefinable, insubstantial, intangible, malingering, mysterious, phantom, shifty, shirking, slippery, transitory, tricky
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