| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Tending to elude or deceive; evasive; fraudulent; fallacious; deceitful; deceptive.[Websters]
2. Being illusive, delusive, deceitful, fallacious or fraudulent. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being deceptive, illusory, specious, delusory or misleading. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being shifty, catchy or tricky. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb elusorily.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (elusorily) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective elusory.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
"ELUSORY" is a common misspelling or typo for: delusory. |
Date "ELUSORY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
| Etymology:Elusory \E*lu"so*ry\, adjective. [from Late Latin expression elusorius.]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ELUSORY
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adjective] Tending to elude; tending to deceive; evasive; fraudulent; fallacious; deceitful. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
