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What is "evasive" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does evasive mean in English? Meaning of evasive definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "evasive" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "evasive": deliberately vague or ambiguous

Adjective

  • Meaning: deliberately vague or ambiguous
  • Example: his answers were brief, constrained and evasive an evasive statement
  • Synonyms: evasive
  • Similar: ambiguous equivocal

    • Meaning of "evasive": avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire

    Adjective

  • Meaning: avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire
  • Example: pilots are taught to take evasive action
  • Synonyms: evasive
  • Similar: protective
  • Adjective: Tending to avoid speaking openly or making revelations about oneself.Directed towards avoidance or escape; evasive action.

    • Synonyms:

    ambiguous, unclear, deceptive, misleading, cagey, vague, cunning, devious, elusive, fugitive, greasy, indirect, intangible, lying, oblique, shifty, slippery, sly, false, casuistic, casuistical, dissembling, elusory, equivocating, prevaricating, shuffling, sophistical, stonewalling,

    Antonyms:

    honest, truthful, forthright, clear, definite, direct, ready, straight, straightforward,

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