a. | 1. | Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice. |
Adj. | 1. | evasive - deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement" |
2. | evasive - avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire; "pilots are taught to take evasive action" | |
3. | evasive - skillful at eluding capture; "a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline Synonyms: elusive |