Furtive vs Elusive - What's the difference?
furtive | elusive | Synonyms |
stealthy
Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
* 1949 , George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four , p31
Evading capture, comprehension or remembrance.
* {{quote-book
, year=1910
, author=Jack London
, title=Lost Face
, chapter=6
Rarely seen.
*
Difficult to describe.
Furtive is a synonym of elusive.
As adjectives the difference between furtive and elusive
is that furtive is stealthy while elusive is .furtive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control.
Synonyms
* (stealthy) surreptitious * See alsoDerived terms
* furtively * furtivenesselusive
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)