evasive : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: evasive	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for evasive
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
evasive adj deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement" avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire; "pilots are taught to take evasive action"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Evasive \Eva"sive\, a. [Cf. F. [82]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. -- {Eva"sively}, adv. -- {Eva"siveness}, n.