Antonyms for elude
ɪˈludelude

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.8 / 5 votes

1. eludeverb

   Antonyms:
   address, address, apostrophize, appeal, approach, cost, court, greet, hail, salute, speak to, woo

   Synonyms:
   avoid, cut, ignore, overlook, pass, pass by, shun

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. elude

   Antonyms:
   encounter, meet, confront, court, dare, defy

   Synonyms:
   escape, avoid, baffle, shun, eschew, evade, parry, fence, mock, frustrate

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1. • Avoid

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.3 / 3 votes

1. elude, evade, bilkverb

   escape, either physically or mentally

   "The thief eluded the police"; "This difficult idea seems to evade her"; "The event evades explanation"

   Synonyms:
   fudge, duck, hedge, dodge, skirt, bilk, frustrate, circumvent, baffle, foil, cross, parry, evade, thwart, put off, spoil, sidestep, escape, scotch

2. elude, escapeverb

   be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by

   "What you are seeing in him eludes me"

   Synonyms:
   miss, fudge, run, duck, hedge, dodge, escape, break away, run away, hightail it, skirt, get out, break loose, bilk, get off, bunk, take to the woods, scat, scarper, fly the coop, turn tail, circumvent, head for the hills, parry, get by, evade, put off, sidestep, get away, lam

3. hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestepverb

   avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

   "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"

   Synonyms:
   put over, circumvent, set back, dip, turn off, confuse, sidestep, cook, douse, overreach, beat, surround, dishearten, hold over, hem in, environ, defer, outfox, deflect, parry, dodge, remit, fake, duck, border, flurry, prorogue, block, outsmart, hedge, manipulate, put off, evade, falsify, table, misrepresent, postpone, hedge in, shelve, beleaguer, disconcert, ring, wangle, escape, fudge, outwit, besiege, bilk, skirt

How to use elude in a sentence?

1. Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It:

   At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear." It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us." You can love completely without complete understanding.

2. Party leader:

   I am not one to elude responsibilities, the results are very bad, i only have to say that we are going to start working right now to recover this support and to do so leading the center-right. We had sent warnings out that fragmenting the vote would not be a winning option.

3. Mark Zandi:

   As long as it's raging, other variants could develop, the next one could elude our vaccine, and that could derail the recovery.

4. Unknown:

   Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

5. Henry David Thoreau:

   Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

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