elusory
31slippery — Synonyms and related words: Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, adipose, ambidextrous, amoral, arch, artful, astute, blubbery, buttery, butyraceous, cagey, calculating, canny, changeable, chiseling, chrismal, chrismatory, clever, collusive,… …
32elusive — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. elusory, evasive, slippery, shifty, tricky, baffling; deceptive, illusory, intangible, fugitive. See transientness, deception. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Evasive] Syn. slippery, tricky, evanescent,… …
33transientness — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Temporary duration Nouns 1. transientness, transience, evanescence, impermanence, fugacity, mortality, span; nine days wonder, bubble, ephemerality; short term; spurt; planned obsolescence; temporary… …
34elusive — a. 1. Evasive. See elusory. 2. Equivocating, shuffling, equivocatory …
35evasive — a. Equivocating, shuffling, sophistical, elusive, elusory, shifty …
36elusive — adj 1. evasive, elusory, slippery, shifty, hard to pin down, Inf. cagey. 2. intangible, impalpable, imponderable, undefinable, inexplicable …
37elusive — /əˈlusɪv/ (say uh loohsiv), /i / (say ee ) adjective 1. eluding clear perception or complete mental grasp; hard to express or define: *Freddie Buckmaster lets out a great guffaw, understanding nothing of what the old man has just said, but… …
38elusive — elusive, illusory The confusion here has been greatly reduced by the virtual disappearance from the scene of the forms elusory and illusive. This leaves elusive as the adjective from elude, meaning ‘difficult to grasp (physically or mentally)’,… …
39illusory — elusive, illusory The confusion here has been greatly reduced by the virtual disappearance from the scene of the forms elusory and illusive. This leaves elusive as the adjective from elude, meaning ‘difficult to grasp (physically or mentally)’,… …
40elusive — [adj] evasive, mysterious ambiguous, baffling, cagey, deceitful, deceptive, difficult to catch, elusory, equivocal, evanescent, fallacious, fleeting, fraudulent, fugacious, fugitive, greasy, illusory, imponderable, incomprehensible, indefinable,… …
