[へんげんしゅつぼつ, hengenshutsubotsu] (n, vs) being protean and elusive; appear and disappear like a phantom [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Elusive \E*lu"sive\, a.
Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly
escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.
[1913 Webster]
Elusive of the bridal day, she gives
Fond hopes to all, and all with hopes deceives. --Pope.
-- {E*lu"sive*ly}, adv. -- {E*lu"sive*ness}, n.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
elusive
adj 1: difficult to describe; "a haunting elusive odor"
2: skillful at eluding capture; "a cabal of conspirators, each
more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline
3: difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze; "his
whole attitude had undergone a subtle change"; "a subtle
difference"; "that elusive thing the soul" [syn: {elusive},
{subtle}]
4: 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"; "a problematic situation at
home" [syn: {baffling}, {elusive}, {knotty}, {problematic},
{problematical}, {tough}]
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