Dictionary Definition
evasive adj
1 deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers
were brief, constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement"
2 avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger
especially enemy fire; "pilots are taught to take evasive
action"
3 skillful at eluding capture; "a cabal of
conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist"- David
Kline [syn: elusive]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
Translations
Tending to avoid speaking openly or making
revelations about oneself
- Finnish: välttelevä, kiertelevä
Directed towards avoidance or escape; evasive
action
- Finnish: väistö-
Italian
Adjective
evasive- Feminine plural form of evasivo
Extensive Definition
Evasion is the act of avoiding something.
It may refer to:
- Evasion (law), to avoid government mandate through specious means (tax evasion, for example)
- Evasion (book), a zine-turned-book published by CrimethInc., an anarchist group
- Evasion (Objectivism), refusal to think on or accept the consequences of a line of thought
- Evasion (Ethics)
- Citroën Evasion, a car
evasive in German: Evasion
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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