Elusive vs Slippery - What's the difference?
elusive | slippery |
Evading capture, comprehension or remembrance.
* {{quote-book
, year=1910
, author=Jack London
, title=Lost Face
, chapter=6
Rarely seen.
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Difficult to describe.
Of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc.
(figuratively, by extension) Evasive; difficult to pin down.
(obsolete) Liable to slip; not standing firm.
* 1602 , , III. iii. 84:
unstable; changeable; inconstant
* Denham
(obsolete) wanton; unchaste; loose in morals
* 1610 , , I. ii. 273:
Slippery is a synonym of elusive.
As adjectives the difference between elusive and slippery
is that elusive is evading capture, comprehension or remembrance while slippery is of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc.elusive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The elusive criminal was arrested
citation, passage=Charley chased the elusive idea through all the nooks and crannies of his drowning consciousness.}}
- A precise definition of diarrhea is elusive (Robbin's pathology, 8th ed)
slippery
English
Adjective
(er)- Oily substances render things slippery .
- a slippery person
- a slippery promise
- Which when they fall, as being slippery' standers, / The love that leaned on them, as ' slippery too, / Do one pluck down another, and together / Die in the fall.
- The slippery state of kings.
- My wife is slippery ? If thou wilt confess –