Synonym: evasive, subtle. Similar words: inclusive, exclusive, exclusively, effusive, obtrusive, intrusive, allusion, illusion. Meaning: [-uːsɪv] adj. 1. difficult to describe 2. skillful at eluding capture 3. be difficult to detect or grasp by the mind.
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121. Asquith, like many physicists, spends a lot of time thinking about particles like the elusive Higgs boson — the subatomic particle that scientists say endows everything in the universe with mass.
122. Although he spent a year prospecting for the elusive metal, he met only with failure.
123. The sweet meaty taste, thin and elusive almost as a memory, maddened him.
124. An elusive, Cambridge - trained anthropologist made his career largely in the United States.
125. Empirically, the distinction between active and idle balance is elusive.
126. Russia's future is less predictable and modernisation more elusive than either was a decade ago.
127. It is mysterious and elusive and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.
128. Sometimes the thrill is the magic of a dead-on fabulous technique for getting at elusive data.
129. Empiri - cally, the distinction between active and idle balances is elusive.
130. The trouble is that the new technological fixes are elusive.
131. Try to catch the elusive charm of the original in translation.
132. The minute creatures, barely 2cm tall, were elusive even before the spill, found only among the seagrass in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
133. How does one get a grip on this most elusive , intractable and perhaps unanswerable of questions?
134. The elusive Planet X is, however, shrouded by a dust cloud that bounces sunlight back to the Sun, except for those rare moments when the angle of reflection is just right.
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136. Humility is an elusive attribute, which often seems to evade definition.
137. Phantasmagoria are not mere figments of our imagination, they also serve to shape the incomprehensible and the elusive and make it manageable.
138. Altocumulus lacunosus. “An elusive prize for any cloud collector,” lacunosus clouds form when sinking pockets of air create holes in a cloud layer.
139. We can detect a nascent self-possession the east has not known for many centuries. That is what is new among Asians – elusive, unannounced and unmistakable all at once.
140. Happiness, which had been so elusive in Henry's life, still evaded him.
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141. You could turn up a something special, like the elusive Bigfoot Ant, North America’s rarest ant species.
142. Yet what is it about the tremolo which makes It'so elusive to students?
143. It was a vibration merely, faint, elusive, impossible of definition.
144. Central and dysesthetic pain are probably the most disabling of sensory disturbances associated with syringomyelia, and, unfortunately, effective treatment remains elusive.
145. Inflammatory bowel disease(IBD) includes ulcerative colitis(UC) and Crohn's disease(CD). The pathophysiology mechanisms of the disease remains elusive.
146. Graddy discovered that even at Fulton, perfect competition was elusive.
147. It is not some elusive nirvana of perfection and romantic sunsets.
148. Finding a vaccine for Plasmodium has been an elusive goal.
149. They soon realized that the capriciousness of memory made answers elusive.
150. An encounter with an elusive Canada Lynx is said to be a rare privilege.
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