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difficult to catch synonyms

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  • clear as dishwater
  • cryptic
  • doubtful
  • dubious
  • enigmatic
  • enigmatical
  • equivocal
  • inconclusive
  • indefinite
  • indeterminate
  • inexplicit
  • muddy
  • multivocal
  • obscure
  • opaque
  • polysemous
  • puzzling
  • questionable
  • tenebrous
  • abstruse
  • bewildering
  • beyond one
  • confusing
  • difficult to understand
  • enigmatic
  • hard to understand
  • incomprehensible
  • mystifying
  • over one's head
  • perplexing
  • unclear
  • unfathomable
  • careful
  • circumspect
  • crafty
  • cunning
  • leery
  • secretive
  • shrewd
  • sly
  • wary
  • wily
  • artful
  • astucious
  • astute
  • beguiling
  • clandestine
  • counterfeit
  • crafty
  • cunning
  • deceiving
  • deceptive
  • delusive
  • delusory
  • designing
  • disingenuous
  • double-dealing
  • duplicitous
  • fallacious
  • false
  • feline
  • ambiguous
  • astucious
  • beguiling
  • bum
  • catchy
  • crafty
  • cunning
  • deceitful
  • deceiving
  • deluding
  • delusive
  • delusory
  • designing
  • disingenuous
  • fake
  • fallacious
  • false
  • fishy
  • foxy
  • ambiguous
  • baffling
  • cagey
  • deceitful
  • deceptive
  • difficult to catch
  • equivocal
  • evanescent
  • fallacious
  • fleeting
  • fraudulent
  • fugacious
  • fugitive
  • greasy
  • illusory
  • imponderable
  • incomprehensible
  • indefinable
  • insubstantial
  • ambiguous
  • ambivalent
  • amphibological
  • borderline
  • clear as mud
  • clouded
  • disreputable
  • dubious
  • evasive
  • fishy
  • fuzzy
  • hazy
  • indefinite
  • indeterminate
  • indistinct
  • misleading
  • muddled
  • muzzy
  • oblique
  • brief
  • disappearing
  • fading
  • fleeting
  • momentary
  • passing
  • short-lived
  • temporary
  • tenuous
  • vanishing
  • beguiling
  • deceiving
  • deceptive
  • deluding
  • delusive
  • delusory
  • erroneous
  • fictitious
  • fishy
  • fraudulent
  • illogical
  • illusory
  • incorrect
  • invalid
  • irrational
  • mad
  • misleading
  • mistaken
  • off
  • cursory
  • ephemeral
  • evanescent
  • fading
  • flash in the pan
  • flitting
  • flying
  • fugacious
  • fugitive
  • impermanent
  • meteoric
  • momentary
  • passing
  • short
  • short-lived
  • sudden
  • temporary
  • transitory
  • vanishing
  • bamboozling
  • counterfeit
  • crafty
  • criminal
  • crooked
  • deceitful
  • devious
  • dishonest
  • dishonorable
  • double-dealing
  • duplicitous
  • fake
  • forged
  • mock
  • phony
  • pseudo
  • sham
  • spurious
  • swindling
  • brief
  • ephemeral
  • evanescent
  • fleeting
  • impermanent
  • momentary
  • passing
  • short-lived
  • temporal
  • temporary
  • transient
  • avoiding
  • brief
  • criminal
  • elusive
  • ephemeral
  • errant
  • erratic
  • escaping
  • evading
  • evanescent
  • fleeting
  • flitting
  • flying
  • fugacious
  • hot
  • impermanent
  • lamster
  • momentary
  • moving
  • anointed
  • creamy
  • daubed
  • fatty
  • lubricated
  • lubricious
  • oleaginous
  • pomaded
  • salved
  • slick
  • slimy
  • slithery
  • smeared
  • swabbed
  • unctuous
  • Barmecidal
  • apparent
  • blue sky
  • chimerical
  • deceitful
  • delusive
  • delusory
  • fallacious
  • false
  • fanciful
  • fantastic
  • fictional
  • fictitious
  • fictive
  • float
  • hallucinatory
  • ideal
  • illusive
  • imaginary
  • ephemeral
  • evanescent
  • fine
  • gradual
  • impalpable
  • inappreciable
  • inaudible
  • inconsiderable
  • inconspicuous
  • indiscernible
  • indistinct
  • indistinguishable
  • infinitesimal
  • insensible
  • insignificant
  • intangible
  • invisible
  • microscopic
  • minute
  • Delphic
  • Greek
  • baffling
  • beats me
  • beyond comprehension
  • beyond one's grasp
  • clear as mud
  • cryptic
  • enigmatic
  • fathomless
  • impenetrable
  • incognizable
  • inconceivable
  • inscrutable
  • mysterious
  • mystifying
  • obscure
  • opaque
  • over one's head
  • abominable
  • alarming
  • appalling
  • atrocious
  • awful
  • beastly
  • beyond words
  • calamitous
  • defying description
  • description
  • detestable
  • dire
  • disgusting
  • dreadful
  • evil
  • execrable
  • fearful
  • frightening
  • frightful
  • aerial
  • airy
  • chimerical
  • decrepit
  • ephemeral
  • false
  • fanciful
  • feeble
  • flimsy
  • fly-by-night
  • fragile
  • frail
  • idle
  • illusory
  • immaterial
  • imponderable
  • incorporeal
  • infirm
  • intangible
  • abstract
  • abstruse
  • airy
  • dim
  • eluding
  • elusive
  • ethereal
  • evading
  • evanescent
  • evasive
  • hypothetical
  • impalpable
  • imperceptible
  • imponderable
  • inappreciable
  • incorporeal
  • indeterminate
  • insensible
  • invisible
  • ambiguous
  • beguiling
  • bewildering
  • casuistical
  • catchy
  • confounding
  • deceitful
  • deceiving
  • deluding
  • delusive
  • delusory
  • demagogic
  • disingenuous
  • distracting
  • evasive
  • fallacious
  • false
  • inaccurate
  • perplexing
  • abstruse
  • acroamatic
  • arcane
  • cabalistic
  • concealed
  • deep
  • eerie
  • esoteric
  • hermetic
  • hidden
  • invisible
  • magic
  • magical
  • mystic
  • mystical
  • obscure
  • orphic
  • preternatural
  • profound
  • apparition
  • chimera
  • daydream
  • delusion
  • dream
  • eidolon
  • figment
  • hallucination
  • haunt
  • ignis fatuus
  • illusion
  • mirage
  • nightmare
  • phantasm
  • revenant
  • shade
  • shadow
  • specter
  • spirit
  • abstruse
  • ambiguous
  • baffling
  • bewildering
  • beyond one
  • difficult
  • enigmatic
  • hard
  • incomprehensible
  • inexplicable
  • involved
  • knotty
  • labyrinthine
  • misleading
  • mystifying
  • obscure
  • perplexing
  • surprising
  • unaccountable
  • cagey
  • collusive
  • conniving
  • contriving
  • crafty
  • crooked
  • cunning
  • devious
  • dishonest
  • dodging
  • duplicitous
  • elusive
  • equivocating
  • evasive
  • fly-by-night
  • foxy
  • fraudulent
  • furtive
  • insidious
  • afraid
  • apprehensive
  • averse
  • backward
  • bashful
  • cautious
  • chary
  • circumspect
  • conscious
  • coy
  • demure
  • diffident
  • disinclined
  • distrustful
  • fearful
  • hesitant
  • humble
  • indisposed
  • introvert
  • glacé
  • glassy
  • glazed
  • glistening
  • greasy
  • icy
  • like a skating rink
  • lubricious
  • lustrous
  • perilous
  • polished
  • satiny
  • silky
  • sleek
  • slimy
  • soapy
  • unctuous
  • unsafe
  • unstable
  • filibuster
  • rebuff
  • resist
  • stall
  • attenuate
  • attenuated
  • deep
  • discriminating
  • ethereal
  • exquisite
  • faint
  • fine
  • finespun
  • hairline
  • hairsplitting
  • illusive
  • implied
  • inconspicuous
  • indirect
  • indistinct
  • inferred
  • ingenious
  • insinuated
  • brief
  • changeable
  • deciduous
  • emigrating
  • ephemeral
  • evanescent
  • flash
  • fleeting
  • flitting
  • fly-by-night
  • flying
  • fugacious
  • fugitive
  • going by
  • impermanent
  • insubstantial
  • migrating
  • momentary
  • moving
  • impermanent
  • momentary
  • temporal
  • transient
  • catchy
  • complex
  • critical
  • delicate
  • intricate
  • involved
  • knotty
  • perplexing
  • precarious
  • problematic
  • quirky
  • risky
  • rocky
  • sensitive
  • sticky
  • thorny
  • ticklish
  • touch-and-go
  • touchy
  • ambiguous
  • baffling
  • cagey
  • deceitful
  • deceptive
  • difficult to catch
  • elusory
  • equivocal
  • evanescent
  • fallacious
  • fleeting
  • fraudulent
  • fugacious
  • fugitive
  • greasy
  • illusory
  • imponderable
  • incomprehensible
  • indefinable
  • airy
  • buoyant
  • capricious
  • effervescent
  • elastic
  • elusive
  • ephemeral
  • erratic
  • expansive
  • fickle
  • fleeting
  • flighty
  • flippant
  • frivolous
  • fugacious
  • fugitive
  • gaseous
  • gay
  • giddy

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