323 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ɪlˈuːsɪv], [ ɪlˈuːsɪv], [ ɪ_l_ˈuː_s_ɪ_v]

Similar words for elusive:

• all (adjective)
• dishonest (adjective)
• evasive (adjective)
• evasive, mysterious (adjective)
• fugitive (adjective)
• furtive (adjective)
• inaccessible (adjective)
• inapproachable (adjective)
• intangible (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• quibbling (adjective)
• shifty (adjective)
• slippery (adjective)
• sly (adjective)
• subtle (adjective)
• unattainable (adjective)
• unclear (adjective)
• unreachable (adjective)
• volatile (adjective)
• artful (noun)
• elusive (noun)
• evasive (noun)
• mysterious (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for elusive

Homophones for elusive

Synonyms for Elusive:

• adj.

  • all (adjective)
  • elusive.
  • dishonest (adjective)
  • mendacious,
  • perfidious,
  • Double dealing.
  • evasive (adjective)
  • casuistical,
  • Elusory,
  • sophistical,
  • casuistic.
  • evasive, mysterious (adjective)
  • deceitful,
  • equivocal,
  • indefinable,
  • insubstantial,
  • transitory,
  • fallacious,
  • incomprehensible,
  • occult,
  • ambiguous,
  • difficult to catch,
  • unspecific,
  • baffling,
  • imponderable,
  • phantom,
  • stonewalling,
  • fraudulent,
  • shy,
  • puzzling,
  • cagey,
  • transient,
  • deceptive,
  • misleading,
  • greasy,
  • fugacious,
  • illusory.
  • fugitive (adjective)
  • impermanent,
  • on the lam,
  • wanted,
  • running away,
  • Escaping,
  • lamster.
  • furtive (adjective)
  • masked,
  • hush hush,
  • more skulking,
  • dis-guised,
  • more sub rosa,
  • most under the table,
  • most sub-rosa,
  • under cover,
  • more conspiratorial,
  • most subrosa,
  • under wraps,
  • more under the table,
  • more slinking,
  • most slinking,
  • most skulking,
  • more subrosa,
  • most under-the-table,
  • subrosa,
  • under hand,
  • hushhush,
  • under-cover,
  • most sub rosa,
  • dis guised,
  • under-hand,
  • more under-the-table,
  • more sub-rosa,
  • most conspiratorial.
  • inaccessible (adjective)
  • unachievable,
  • ungettable,
  • not at hand,
  • faraway,
  • Inapproachable,
  • unreachable,
  • unattainable,
  • unobtainable,
  • far off.
  • inapproachable (adjective)
  • out of way,
  • out the way,
  • in-approachable,
  • out way,
  • in approachable.
  • intangible (adjective)
  • in corporeal,
  • more unapparent,
  • most unapparent,
  • in-tangible,
  • un-apparent,
  • in sensible,
  • in tangible,
  • hypothetical,
  • un observable,
  • un substantial,
  • more eluding,
  • in appreciable,
  • in-appreciable,
  • un-real,
  • hypo thetical,
  • in-sensible,
  • hypo-thetical,
  • in-corporeal,
  • un-sure,
  • un-observable,
  • un-substantial,
  • un apparent,
  • in visible,
  • most eluding,
  • in-visible,
  • in determinate,
  • un sure,
  • unapparent.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • dishonest,
  • sly,
  • conspiratorial,
  • sneaking,
  • furtive,
  • slippery,
  • prevaricative,
  • sub-rosa,
  • quibbling,
  • shifty,
  • volatile,
  • intangible,
  • evasive,
  • imprecise,
  • prevaricatory,
  • under-the-table,
  • unclear,
  • beyond reach.
  • quibbling (adjective)
  • more hairsplitting,
  • most hairsplitting,
  • most caviling,
  • more caviling.
  • shifty (adjective)
  • more conniving,
  • more prevaricatory,
  • most conniving,
  • un-truthful,
  • un honest,
  • more unhonest,
  • more prevaricative,
  • most unhonest,
  • more contriving,
  • most prevaricatory,
  • more dodging,
  • un-honest,
  • most dodging,
  • most contriving,
  • fly by night,
  • most prevaricative,
  • Unhonest.
  • slippery (adjective)
  • mutable,
  • in secure,
  • in-constant,
  • in securer,
  • un safe,
  • in-securer,
  • un-safe,
  • un predictable,
  • un-predictable,
  • in-secure,
  • un steadiest,
  • in-securest,
  • un steady,
  • in securest,
  • un safest,
  • un steadier,
  • un safer,
  • un-steadier,
  • un-safer,
  • un-steadiest,
  • un-safest.
  • sly (adjective)
  • dis honorable,
  • dis-honorable,
  • impish,
  • more plotting,
  • most plotting.
  • subtle (adjective)
  • implicit,
  • implied,
  • delicate,
  • indirect,
  • Insinuated.
  • unattainable (adjective)
  • un-attainable,
  • un attainable.
  • unclear (adjective)
  • un-clearer,
  • most imprecise,
  • un-clearest,
  • un clear,
  • un clearest,
  • un clearer,
  • un-clear.
  • unreachable (adjective)
  • un-reachable,
  • un reachable.
  • volatile (adjective)
  • in-consistent,
  • un-settled,
  • un settled,
  • in consistent.

• n.

  •
  • taxing,
  • arduous,
  • be an effort,
  • challenging,
  • demanding,
  • complicated,
  • punishing.
  •
  • dim,
  • foggy,
  • faint,
  • conscious.
  •
  • impossible,
  • intractable,
  • awkward,
  • testing,
  • trying,
  • critical,
  • intolerable,
  • thorny.
  • artful (noun)
  • artful.
  • elusive (noun)
  • impalpable,
  • subtle,
  • unidentifiable.
  • evasive (noun)
  • fleeting,
  • tricky,
  • temporary,
  • evanescent.
  • mysterious (noun)
  • obscure,
  • difficult.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • fugitive.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • dimly,
  • catchy,
  • memorial,
  • nostalgic,
  • forgotten,
  • unforgettable,
  • redolent,
  • retentive,
  • memorable,
  • haunting.
  •
  • blurred,
  • wistful,
  • etched,
  • commemorative,
  • reminiscent,
  • suggestive.
  •
  • immortal.
  •
  • vague,
  • hazy.
  •
  • short.
  •
  • long.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • bogus,
  • pernicious,
  • cramped,
  • debatable,
  • abstruse,
  • sophistic,
  • byzantine,
  • cunning,
  • ethereal,
  • false,
  • Deceived,
  • Avoiding,
  • concealed,
  • unsought,
  • enigmatic,
  • impenetrable,
  • deep,
  • slight,
  • malingering,
  • pseudo,
  • imperceptible,
  • perplexing,
  • specious,
  • immaterial,
  • hard,
  • indefinite,
  • Violating,
  • profound,
  • counterfeit,
  • mystifying,
  • ruffianly,
  • hidden,
  • mysterious,
  • delusive,
  • fine,
  • nebulous,
  • snarled,
  • opaque,
  • unwilling,
  • unfathomable,
  • mere,
  • arcane,
  • ad captandum vulgus,
  • remote,
  • runaway,
  • delusory,
  • fake,
  • illusive,
  • Covinous,
  • airy,
  • unperceivable,
  • shy of,
  • lawless,
  • neutral,
  • Prestigiatory,
  • inconstant,
  • tortuous,
  • vaporous,
  • Unattempted,
  • inaccessible,
  • shadowy,
  • thin,
  • veiled,
  • cryptic,
  • recondite,
  • knobbed,
  • dodgy,
  • Deceiving,
  • shirking,
  • rugged,
  • spurious,
  • wild,
  • insidious,
  • incorporeal,
  • Transgressive,
  • prestigious,
  • untruthful,
  • Deceptious,
  • unsubstantial.

Paraphrases for Elusive:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    attainable, blurred, challenging, confusing, difficult, distant, fleeting, fugitive, futile, ill-defined, illusory, impossible, impracticable, impractical, imprecise, inaccessible, inaccurate, indomitable, intangible, obscure, off-limits, perplexing, problematic, problematical, secretive, slim, stealth, tough, tricky, uncertain, unclear, unfeasible, unrealistic, unrealized, unspecific, unworkable, hard-won, hard-to-reach, unimplemented.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    evasive, illusive, mysterious, sly, unachievable, unattainable, unavailable, unfulfilled, unobtainable, unreachable, vague.

Homophones for Elusive:

• illusive.