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Shrouded vs Elusive - What's the difference?

shrouded | elusive | Related terms |

Shrouded is a related term of elusive.


As adjectives the difference between shrouded and elusive

is that shrouded is wearing, or provided with a shroud while elusive is .

As a verb shrouded

is (shroud).

shrouded

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Wearing, or provided with a shroud.
  • Concealed or hidden from sight, as if by a shroud.
  • *
  • *:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

    • Derived terms

    * shrouded gear * shrouded propeller

    Verb

    (head)
  • (shroud)

    • 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.
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  • Difficult to describe.
    • A precise definition of diarrhea is elusive (Robbin's pathology, 8th ed)

    Related terms

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