Encyclo - De online Nederlandstalige encyclopedie뮠in 驮 oogopslag
Encyclopedia Sources Categories About Encyclo      Enzyklopädie-DE Encyclopedie-NL
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Index
Agriculture and Industry
Animals and Nature
Architecture and Buildings
Arts
Business and Law
Earth and Environment
Economy and Finance
Education
Electronics and Engineering
Film and Animation
Food and Drink
General
General technical and industrial
Government and organisations
Health and Medicine
History and Culture
Hobbies and Crafts
Language and Literature
Legal
Management
Mathematics and statistics
Meteorology and astronomy
Military and Defence
Music and Sound
People and society
Sciences
Sport and Leisure
Technical and IT
Travel and Transportation

Look up: elusive

  1. elusive
    [Adjective] Hard to grasp.
    Example: The secret of happiness is elusive.
    Found on http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/glossary

  2. elusive
    [adj] - be difficult to detect or grasp by the mind 2. [adj] - difficult to describe 3. [adj] - skillful at eluding capture
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Elusive
    E·lu'sive adjective Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious. « Elusive of the bridal day, she gives Fond hopes to all, and all with hopes deceives.» Pope.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/E/23

  4. elusive
    evasive adjective skillful at eluding capture; `a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist`- David Kline
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  5. elusive
    subtle adjective be difficult to detect or grasp by the mind; `his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change`; `a subtle difference`; `that elusive thing the soul`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  6. elusive
    adjective difficult to describe; `a haunting elusive odor`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  7. Elusive
    • (a.) Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  8. elusive
    elusive Tending to elude perception or comprehension; difficult to describe.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  9. Elusive
    "`Elusive`" became the first single for British singer/songwriter Scott Matthews and was released on 18 September 2006. The single received much airplay from BBC Radio DJs Jo Whiley, Dermot O`Leary, and Zane Lowe between August 7–10; Lowe played "Elusive" once each night a...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elusive



...

11 February 2012

This day in history:
On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

Encyclo in your browser

Encyclo in the search bar of your browser? Click for more info! Would you like to use Encyco more often? Add an (extra) search option to the search field of your browser. Installed in 3 seconds, easy to remove.
More info

Statistics

Encyclo has been online since october 15th 2007. It currently contains 3,485,243 words from 1122 sources. The words are listed in 32 categories.

Search

Type a word and press the `Search` button.

Recent searches

The most recent searches on Encyclo. Between brackets you will find the number of results and number of related results.
carbamic (5/5)
Filatov-Dukes (2/1)
oscillopsia (7/0)
SLUDGE (20/23)
Matt (2/25)
SHAMIRA (2/1)
Outclassed (2/0)
articulatio (2/25)
Norte (2/25)
Amphibion (2/0)
encoder (10/0)
Meige (3/8)
Panmunjom (2/0)
censure (9/6)
Newcomb (4/22)
Biochron (3/2)
macrocyst (3/7)
R (15/25)
Demodex (5/10)
Field (2/25)
Kr?ch (12/0)
anomeric (2/3)
SLUDGE (20/23)
syncephalus (2/2)

© Encyclo MMXI
Contact Privacy