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.
adj. 1. difficult to describe 2. skillful at eluding capture 3. be difficult to detect or grasp by the mind. 
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181. Democracy in international relations remains elusive and there are new manifestations of hegemonism and power politics.
182. The Abominable Snowman who haunts the imagination of climbers in the Himalayas is hardly more elusive.
183. A longer-term objective, whose achievement has long proved elusive, is to determine where Marburg virus hides in nature between outbreaks.
184. Unfortunately, these targets can be just as elusive in China as they proved to be elsewhere: M2 has exceeded the government's intended limit in nine of the past ten years.
185. But the mutable tubercle bacillus proved an elusive target, becoming resistant to each successive drug tried.
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