Word "ELUSIVE" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
Synonyms:
baffling, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze
Synonyms:
subtle
Examples:
that elusive thing the soul

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
difficult to describe
Examples:
a haunting elusive odor

Crossword Clues for ELUSIVE

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Slippery individual sacking ninety (7) The Sun Two Speed 12 Aug 2025
Hard to find The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 08 Jul 2025
Escaping by dexterity
Slippery and misleading without leader (7)
Spanish article by American I have shortly is hard to find (7)
Use evil to make difficult to catch (7)
Like hard to catch fish (*use live) (7)
Difficult to catch or understand (7)
Hard to trace (7)
Use evil plan that's hard to see (7)
Evil use becomes difficult to pin down (7)
Evil Sue plays hard-to-get (7)
Slippery eel coiled around us four (7)
Vile Sue is hard to find (7)
Difficult to track down Mirror Tea Time 31 Oct 2024
Entertainer initially able to provide a shock going around America and being hard to catch (7)
Hard to pin down (7) The Guardian Quick 29 Sep 2024
Hard to pin down (7) The Guardian Quick 28 Sep 2024
Hard to pin down Newsday 15 Sep 2024
Difficult to catch Elvis when travelling in Europe
Use vile arrangement - that's dodgy (7)
Regularly sell out in advance of John B Keane play - it's hard to catch
Hard to catch The Sun Two Speed 27 Aug 2024
Use evil tricks being slippery The Sun Two Speed 27 Aug 2024
Use evil to become difficult to catch (7)
Hard to pin down New York Times 14 Jul 2024
Use vile arrangement ___ that's dodgy (7)
Would be select if ninety were admitted, but difficult to catch (7)
First of clues missed out? Puck's hard to find (7)
Being hard to catch makes Sue evil (7)
Use live reconstruction - that's dodgy! (7)
Difficult to track down Mirror Tea Time 09 May 2024
Difficult to catch Mirror Classic 26 Apr 2024
Difficult to catch, evasive (7)
Sue evil criminal that's hard to pin down (7)
Like the Pimpernel to live with Sue for a change (7)
Slippery individual sacking ninety The Sun Two Speed 23 Mar 2024
Evasive The Sun Two Speed 23 Mar 2024
Use live explosive that's had to pin down
Use evil trickery to become hard to find (7)
They asked of Baroness Orczy's creation, "Is he in heaven? Is he in hell? That demmed, ... Pimpernel"
Evil Sue being devious is difficult to find (7)
Difficult to catch Mirror Classic 26 Jan 2024
Hard to catch Thomas Joseph 03 Nov 2023
Baffling -- relating to sight returning -- no adult should cover up middle of eye The Telegraph Toughie 26 Oct 2023
Hard to find or pin down The Times Concise 19 Sep 2023
Broadcast live, Sue is difficult to understand The Times Cryptic 08 Sep 2023
Hard to catch European appearing in person across America The Telegraph Cryptic 10 Aug 2023
Difficult to recall Wall Street Journal 01 Jul 2023
Difficult to describe The Guardian Quick 16 Feb 2023
Slippery Wall Street Journal 19 Dec 2022
Slippery Wall Street Journal 06 Aug 2022
Hard to pin down The Times Concise 03 May 2022
Hard to find English active around us The Times Cryptic 02 Dec 2021
Hard to find our lot in East, as it happens
Following end of chase, evil US criminal is hard to find
Slippery individual sacking ninety The Sun Two Speed 24 Apr 2021
Evasive The Sun Two Speed 24 Apr 2021
Slippery The Telegraph Quick 16 Jan 2021
Hard to catch Universal 04 Jan 2021
Difficult to pin down Premier Sunday 20 Sep 2020
Difficult to catch USA Today 26 Aug 2020
Slippery Universal 28 Jul 2020
Use live explosive that's slippery The Sun Two Speed 26 Jul 2020
Hard to catch
Difficult to find or catch Irish Times Simplex 29 Jul 2019
Hard to catch The Telegraph Quick 03 Jul 2019
Hard to catch Thomas Joseph 24 Apr 2019
Use evil trick, being slippery The Sun Two Speed 17 Nov 2018
Hard to pin down New York Times 16 Aug 2018
Dodgy individual giving ninety the sack
Difficult to understand The Times Concise 27 Jun 2018
European charged outside America is difficult to catch
Hard to pin down
Use vile means to remain hard to catch
Shifty Premier Sunday 06 Aug 2017
Difficult to find The Washington Post 18 Jun 2017
Difficult to find LA Times Daily 18 Jun 2017
Slippery New York Times 03 Jun 2017
Hard to pin down LA Times Daily 02 Jun 2017
Hard to pin down The Washington Post 02 Jun 2017
Difficult to find peace, finally settle outside America
Difficult to grasp The Times Concise 02 Feb 2017
Slippery
Hard to pin down
Difficult to find
It's difficult to find Elvis impersonator covering unaccompanied opening to Heartbreak ?? Irish Times Crosaire 10 Dec 2016
Use evil in a nasty way, being slippery
Hard to define Wall Street Journal 07 Dec 2016
Difficult to find European veil around US
Hard to catch Premier Sunday 20 Mar 2016
Difficult to catch The Times Concise 12 Nov 2015
Hard to find The Telegraph Quick 27 Sep 2015
English last to accept American transient The Telegraph Cryptic 17 Sep 2015
Always on the move to sue evil bully Irish Times Crosaire 29 Aug 2015
Slippery European capable of shocking, taking us in The Telegraph Cryptic 17 May 2015
American protected by wicked European in retreat is hard to catch
Slippery
Eely
Slippery
Hard to understand or identify
Hard to pin down
Hard to pin down
Hard to pin down
Close to unattainable
Hard to get
Hard to nail down
Hard to nail down
Continually slipping away
Hard to pin down
Hard to define
Slippery
Difficult to grasp
Hard to get
Hard to pin down
Hard to catch
Hard to grasp
Just out of reach
Just out of reach
Hard to get
Slippery
Not easily caught
Slippery
Hard to find English active around us
Hard to get
Eely
Hard to describe
Shifty
Baffling
Like a greased pig
Hard to define.
Tricksy.
Baffling.
Hard to pin down.
Difficult to recall
Impalpable.
Slippery.
Slippery as an eel.
Hard to catch.
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