What (who) is evasive - definition

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Evade; Evasive; Evasion (disambiguation)

Evasive

·adj Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice.

evasive

¦ adjective tending to avoid commitment or self-revelation.

?directed towards avoidance or escape: evasive action.

Derivatives

evasively adverb

evasiveness noun

evasive

If you describe someone as evasive, you mean that they deliberately avoid giving clear direct answers to questions.

He was evasive about the circumstances of his first meeting with Stanley Dean...

ADJ

• evasively

'I can't possibly comment on that,' Paul said evasively.

ADV: ADV with v

• evasiveness

She looked at him closely to see if his evasiveness was intentional.

N-UNCOUNT: oft poss N

If you take evasive action, you deliberately move away from someone or something in order to avoid meeting them or being hit by them.

At least four high-flying warplanes had to take evasive action.

PHRASE: V inflects

Evasion

Evasion or evade may refer to:

Evade, a 1960s board game in the 3M bookshelf game series
Évadé, the term given to French and Belgian nationals fleeing German-occupied Europe
Évasion, a Canadian French-language travel and adventure television channel
Évasion FM, a French local radio station
Evasion (ethics), a deceptive act
Evasion (law), to avoid government mandate through specious means (tax evasion, for example)
Evasion (book), a book adapted from a zine of the same title
Evasion (network security), techniques to by-pass network security devices
Evasi0n, an untethered jailbreaking tool for iOS devices
Citroën Evasion, a Eurovan minivan
Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape, American military training program that includes evasion from enemy capture
Evasion, a VR shooter released for the Steam, PS4, HTC Vive, and Oculus Rift and Rift S platforms by Archiact Interactive