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elusive

English

  1. 🔊 skillful at eluding capture
    “a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist”
  2. 🔊 difficult to describe
    “a haunting elusive odor”
  3. 🔊 difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze
    “his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change”
  4. 🔊 making great mental demands
    “a baffling problem”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 elusivo elusive
  2. 🔊 escurridizo elusive

Similar words

baffling knotty problematic problematical tough subtle baffling cagey elusory evanescent evasive fleeting fugitive impalpable imponderable incomprehensible indefinable insubstantial intangible malingering mysterious phantom shifty shirking