All elusory synonyms

adjective elusory

• mysterious — full of, characterized by, or involving mystery: a mysterious occurrence.
• ambiguous — If you describe something as ambiguous, you mean that it is unclear or confusing because it can be understood in more than one way.
• fleeting — swift; rapid: to be fleet of foot; a fleet horse.
• illusory — causing illusion; deceptive; misleading.
• incomprehensible — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
• puzzling — confusing or baffling: a puzzling answer.
• slippery — tending or liable to cause slipping or sliding, as ice, oil, a wet surface, etc.: a slippery road.
• subtle — thin, tenuous, or rarefied, as a fluid or an odor.
• tricky — given to or characterized by deceitful tricks; crafty; wily.
• volatile — evaporating rapidly; passing off readily in the form of vapor: Acetone is a volatile solvent.
• baffling — impossible to understand; perplexing; bewildering; puzzling
• cagey — If you say that someone is being cagey about something, you mean that you think they are deliberately not giving you much information or expressing an opinion about it.
• deceitful — If you say that someone is deceitful, you mean that they behave in a dishonest way by making other people believe something that is not true.
• deceptive — If something is deceptive, it encourages you to believe something which is not true.
• fallacious — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
• fraudulent — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
• fugacious — fleeting; transitory: a sensational story with but a fugacious claim on the public's attention.
• fugitive — a person who is fleeing, from prosecution, intolerable circumstances, etc.; a runaway: a fugitive from justice; a fugitive from a dictatorial regime.
• greasy — smeared, covered, or soiled with grease.
• imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
• indefinable — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
• insubstantial — not substantial or real; lacking substance: an insubstantial world of dreams.
• intangible — not tangible; incapable of being perceived by the sense of touch, as incorporeal or immaterial things; impalpable.
• misleading — deceptive; tending to mislead.
• occult — of or relating to magic, astrology, or any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies.
• phantom — an apparition or specter.
• shifty — resourceful; fertile in expedients.
• shy — bashful; retiring.
• stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
• transient — not lasting, enduring, or permanent; transitory.
• transitory — not lasting, enduring, permanent, or eternal.
• unspecific — having a special application, bearing, or reference; specifying, explicit, or definite: to state one's specific purpose.
• false — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
• unclear — free from darkness, obscurity, or cloudiness; light: a clear day.
• vague — not clearly or explicitly stated or expressed: vague promises.
• casuistic — of or having to do with casuistry or casuists
• casuistical — Casuistic.
• cunning — Someone who is cunning has the ability to achieve things in a clever way, often by deceiving other people.
• devious — If you describe someone as devious you do not like them because you think they are dishonest and like to keep things secret, often in a complicated way.
• dissembling — to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one's incompetence in business.
• elusive — Difficult to find, catch, or achieve.
• indirect — not in a direct course or path; deviating from a straight line; roundabout: an indirect course in sailing.
• lying — the manner, relative position, or direction in which something lies: the lie of the patio, facing the water. Synonyms: place, location, site.
• oblique — neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface; slanting; sloping.
• shuffling — moving in a dragging or clumsy manner.
• sly — cunning or wily: sly as a fox.
• sophistical — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.