Definitions for: Evasive

[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"

Webster (1913) 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.

Synonyms: ambiguous, artful, elusive, equivocal, protective

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