elusive

elusive is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.
2. adjective. skillful at eluding capture- David Kline

   "a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist"

3. adjective. making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

   "a baffling problem"

   "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"

   Synonyms: baffling, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough

4. adjective. difficult to describe

   "a haunting elusive odor"

5. adjective. difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze

   "his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change"

   "a subtle difference"

   Synonyms: subtle

Synonyms

baffling, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough, subtle

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in elusive:

eluvies

Common word forms

elusively, elusiveness

Words from these letters

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