illusive

Modifying Another Word

• so: To me, it really is so illusive and underrated both in work and life... .
• very: You will be less likely to experience this at first, because wave flights are very illusive.

Used with adjective complement

• prove: She had been seen on a few occasions over the last 2 years but had always proved illusive during the doe season.
• remain: However, the mechanism by which ECP achieves its effect remains illusive.

Modifies a noun

• quality: Primarily focusing on landscape work and attempting to capture the illusive quality of light.
• concept: Some of the most difficult and illusive concepts have been brilliantly illuminated by vocal performance.
• win: Steve Pearce - 09 th Oct 2004 23:21 Osterling takes illusive win!
• goal: A further four minutes of added time failed to produce that illusive goal, and the large Belle Vue crowd left frustrated.
• nature: The similarities in the dynamics observed in both time periods are used for revealing the illusive nature that short-term economic flourishing could have.
• power: Under his illusive power on May 3 1997, the Pope made an important announcement.