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Elude vs Earthy - What's the difference?

elude | earthy |

As a verb elude

is to evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill.

As an adjective earthy is

resembling dirt or soil (i.e. earth).

elude

English

Verb

(elud)
  • To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 26.
    • Thus the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.
  • To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip.
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  • To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to.

    • Related terms

    * allude * delude * illude

    earthy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Resembling dirt or soil (i.e. earth).
    • The earthy smell of fresh turned loam told me the farmer had started plowing this morning, the definitive sign of spring for me.
  • Down to earth, un-artificed, natural.
    • She was an earthy soul, the salt of the earth as they say of such rural folk, untarnished by false civilization.
  • Like or resembling the earth or of the earth.
  • Covered with earth (mud, dirt).
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
    • He was wet through with the dew and quite earthy from diving into the burrows the Boy had made for him in the flower bed, and Nana grumbled as she rubbed him off with a corner of her apron.

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