Elusive vs Uncertain - What's the difference?
elusive | uncertain |
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.
Not certain; unsure.
*(John Tillotson) (1630-1694)
*:Man, without the protection of a superior Being,is uncertain of everything that he hopes for.
Not known for certain; questionable.
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Not yet determined; undecided.
Variable and subject to change.
Fitful or unsteady.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
Unpredictable or capricious.
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:O woman! in our hours of ease, / Uncertain , coy, and hard to please!
As adjectives the difference between elusive and uncertain
is that elusive is while uncertain is not certain; unsure.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)