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Superlative for difficult to find, catch, or achieve
“There is even a personal shopping service, providing further help in tracking down that elusive pair of shoes.”
Superlative for evasive or deliberately ambiguous in nature
“He gave us an elusive answer.”
Superlative for difficult to describe or define
“It's not some elusive phenomenon that you can never grasp.”
Superlative for difficult to define, perceive or visualize
“Mr. Ward heard Dr. Allen's voice for the first time, and it seemed to excite some vague and elusive memory which could not be actually placed.”
Superlative for transient, not permanent in nature
“So when we get an elusive feeling of something resembling love, we want to hang on to it.”
Superlative for not tangible, unable to be felt by touch
Superlative for barely perceptible to the senses
Superlative for behaving or prone to behave in an untrustworthy, deceitful, or insincere way
Superlative for reluctant to give information owing to caution or suspicion
Superlative for unable to be achieved or obtained
Superlative for in an isolated or remote location
(of something abstract) Superlative for perceived only with attention to detail or subtlety
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