elusiveadjective
uk/iˈluː.sɪv/us/iˈluː.sɪv/C2 difficult to describe, find, achieve, or remember:
The answers to these questions remain as elusive as ever.
Success, however, remained elusive for her.
elusive memories
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Unachievable
- be (a) no go idiom
- be on a hiding to nothing idiom
- be out of your league idiom
- cat
- for love nor money idiom
- impossibly
- impracticable
- in/out of the running idiom
- infeasible
- inoperable
- league
- love
- no way idiom
- nohow
- not have a cat in hell's chance idiom
- running
- unworkable
- way
- will-o'-the-wisp
- you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear idiom
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Impossible and improbable
elusively
adverb uk/iˈluː.sɪv.li/us/iˈluː.sɪv.li/
elusiveness
noun [ U ] uk/iˈluː.sɪv.nəs/us/iˈluː.sɪv.nəs/