elusory
41evasive — [adj] deceitful, tricky ambiguous, cagey, casuistic, casuistical, cunning, deceptive, devious, dissembling, elusive, elusory, equivocating, false, fugitive, greasy, indirect, intangible, lying, misleading, oblique, prevaricating, shifty,… …
42elusive — [ē lo͞osə rē, i lo͞osə rēē lo͞o′siv, ilo͞o′siv] adj. [< L elusus (see ELUSION) + IVE] 1. tending to elude 2. hard to grasp or retain mentally; baffling: Also Rare elusory [ē lo͞osə rē, i lo͞osə rē] elusively adv. elusiveness n …
43elude — v.tr. 1 escape adroitly from (a danger, difficulty, pursuer, etc.); dodge. 2 avoid compliance with (a law, request, etc.) or fulfilment of (an obligation). 3 (of a fact, solution, etc.) escape from or baffle (a person s memory or understanding).… …
