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Elusive vs Misleading - What's the difference?

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Elusive is a related term of misleading.


As adjectives the difference between elusive and misleading

is that elusive is while misleading is deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression.

As a verb misleading is

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As a noun misleading is

a deception that misleads.

elusive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Evading capture, comprehension or remembrance.
    • The elusive criminal was arrested
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1910 , author=Jack London , title=Lost Face , chapter=6 citation , passage=Charley chased the elusive idea through all the nooks and crannies of his drowning consciousness.}}
  • Rarely seen.
  • *
  • Difficult to describe.
    • A precise definition of diarrhea is elusive (Robbin's pathology, 8th ed)

    Related terms

    * (l)

    misleading

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression.

    • Derived terms

    * unmisleading

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A deception that misleads.
  • * 2012 , Jennifer Mather Saul, Lying, Misleading, and What is Said (page 70)
    • According to this tradition, acts of deception that are mere misleadings are morally better than acts of deception that are lies.

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