adjective
difficult to describe
Examples
- a haunting elusive odor
adjective
skillful at eluding capture
Examples
- a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline
adjective
difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze
Synonyms
Examples
- his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change
- a subtle difference
- that elusive thing the soul
adjective
making great mental demands
Synonyms
Examples
- hard to comprehend or solve or believe
- a baffling problem
- I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast
- a problematic situation at home