elusive adj. It applies to what runs off easily: Slippery as an eel . It applies to what is difficult to grasp or fix: An elusive idea . (inf.) Applies to the person who sneaks with skill to avoid something that would bother him or put him in a bind. It is applied in a material or figurative sense to lands or other things that are intended to slip into them: A slippery slope, an elusive affair . Slippery. Ungraspable Become someone the elusive (inf.). Sneaking off to avoid something that would bother him or put him in a bind: When you ask him to define his position, he becomes the elusive one .
