elusive
US: /ɪˈɫusɪv/
UK: /ɪlˈuːsɪv/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
elusive /i'lu:siv/ (elusory) /i'lu:səri/- tính từ
- hay lảng tránh (người...); có tính chất lảng tránh, có tính chất thoái thác (câu trả lời)
- khó nắm (ý nghĩa...)
Advanced English dictionary
+ adjectivedifficult to find, define, or achieve: Eric, as elusive as ever, was nowhere to be found. + the elusive concept of 'literature' + A solution to the problem of toxic waste is proving elusive in the extreme.
elusively adverb
elusiveness noun [U]
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 evasive, slippery, tricky, shifty:
One of the world's most elusive guerrilla leaders was spotted in public yesterday.
2 evasive, evanescent, fleeting, fugitive, transitory, indefinable, elusory, intangible, impalpable:
The notion of truth has always been elusive.
Collocation
VERBS
be, prove
Further movie roles have proved somewhat elusive for the young actor.
| become | remain
ADV.
extremely, very | rather, somewhat | strangely
Sleep was strangely elusive.
| notoriously
Truth is a notoriously elusive quality.
Concise dictionary
-uːsɪvadj.
+difficult to describe
+skillful at eluding capture
+be difficult to detect or grasp by the mind
