evasive Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite deliberately vague or ambiguous
    • his answers were brief, constrained and evasive
    • an evasive statement
  2. adjective satellite avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire
    • pilots are taught to take evasive action

WordNet

E*va"sive adjective
Etymology
Cf. F. évasif. See Evade.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913