Meaning of EVASIVE
| Pronunciation: | | i'veysiv
|
 WordNet Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | |
- [adj] skillful at eluding capture; "a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline
- [adj] deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement"
- [adj] avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire; "pilots are taught to take evasive action"
|
| |
| | Websites: | |
|
| |
| | Synonyms: | | ambiguous, artful, elusive, equivocal, protective |
| |
|
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
| |
| | Definition: | | \E*va"sive\, a. [Cf. F. ['e]vasif. See {Evade}.]
Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling;
avoiding by artifice.
Thus he, though conscious of the ethereal guest,
Answered evasive of the sly request. --Pope.
Stammered out a few evasive phrases. --Macaulay.
-- {E*va"sive*ly}, adv. -- {E*va"sive*ness}, n.
|
| |
| | Websites: | |
|
| |
| Thesaurus Terms |
| |
| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
| |
|
|
|