elusive

Bulunması, yakalanması veya başarılması zor; ele geçmez

Difficult to find, catch, or achieve; tending to evade or escape.

• The elusive snow leopard is rarely spotted in the wild.
• Success remained elusive despite her best efforts.
• He finally captured the elusive melody that had been in his head for weeks.
• The mechanism underlying consciousness remains one of the most elusive questions in contemporary neuroscience research.
• Archaeologists have spent decades searching for the elusive evidence that would confirm the ancient trade route's existence.
• Quantum physicists continue their pursuit of an elusive unified theory that would reconcile general relativity with quantum mechanics.

Eş anlamlılar: evasive, elating, slippery, intangible, fleeting, hard to pin down

Zıt anlamlılar: accessible, attainable, available, obvious, clear