'evasive' definitions:
Definition of 'evasive'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement"
adjective
Avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire; "pilots are taught to take evasive action"
Definition of 'evasive'
From: GCIDE
- evasive \e*va"sive\ ([-e]*v[=a]"s[i^]v), a. [Cf. F. ['e]vasif. See Evade.] Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice. [1913 Webster]
- Thus he, though conscious of the ethereal guest, Answered evasive of the sly request. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- Stammered out a few evasive phrases. --Macaulay. -- {E*va"sive*ly}, adv. -- {E*va"sive*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'evasive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ambiguous,
- amoral,
- bickering,
- cagey,
- captious,
- casuistic,
- caviling,
- choplogic,
- close,
- closemouthed,
- conscienceless,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- devious,
- discreet,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- dissembling,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- elusive,
- elusory,
- equivocal,
- equivocating,
- equivocatory,
- felonious,
- fishy,
- fraudulent,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- intangible,
- logic-chopping,
- malingering,
- misleading,
- nit-picking,
- not kosher,
- oblique,
- paltering,
- petty,
- picayune,
- prevaricating,
- pussyfooting,
- questionable,
- quibbling,
- rotten,
- secret,
- secretive,
- shady,
- shameless,
- shifty,
- shirking,
- shuffling,
- sinister,
- sliding,
- slippery,
- sly,
- sophistical,
- suspicious,
- tergiversant,
- tergiversating,
- trichoschistic,
- tricky,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- unclear,
- uncommunicative,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unethical,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- vague,
- weasel-worded,
- without remorse,
- without shame