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elusive

/ɪˈluːsɪv/

US pronunciation
American sound/ɪˈluːsɪv/
ɪˈluːsɪv
Syllables
3 syllables
Stress
2nd syllable stress
Vowel
Short i vowel
Ending
Final e often stays silent

ɪ - ˈluːsɪv -> elusive

Myanmar meaning

(adj) နားလည်ရ ခက်ခဲသော၊ ရှာဖွေ ဖမ်းဆီးရန် ခက်ခဲသော

Full entry

elusive /i'lu:sÇv/ adj

(က) အရှာရခက်သော။ တွေ့နိုင်ခဲသော။ ရှောင်တိမ်းနေသော။ အဖမ်းရခက်သော။ a most elusive criminal ❍ that elusive quality that only truly great artists possess.
(ခ) ယတိပြတ် အမှတ်ရခက်သော။ an elusive perfume. အပြောရခက်တဲ့ ရနံ့မျိုးနှင့်ရေမွှေးပဲ။ Compare ILLUSORY

More examples
  • The rebel leader proved elusive.
  • A rare and elusive bird
  • An agreement to end the fighting remains elusive.
  • Elusive memories
Synonyms
indefinable, hard to pin down, subtle, intangible, vague, indescribable, mysterious, obscure, hard to get hold of, abstract, ambiguous, baffling, cagey, deceitful, deceptive, difficult to catch, elusory, equivocal, evanescent, evasive, fallacious, fleeting, fraudulent, fugacious, fugitive, greasy, illusory, imponderable, incomprehensible, insubstantial, misleading, occult, phantom, puzzling, shifty, shy, slippery, stonewalling, tenuous, transient, transitory, tricky, unspecific, volatile
Antonyms
attracting, confronting, definite, encountering, enticing, facing, honest, intelligible, inviting, obvious, stable, understandable
Cross references
indefinablehard to pin downsubtleintangiblevagueindescribablemysteriousobscurehard to get hold ofabstractambiguousbafflingcageydeceitfuldeceptivedifficult to catchelusoryequivocalevanescentevasivefallaciousfleetingfraudulentfugaciousfugitivegreasyillusoryimponderable
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