evasive
adj/ɪˈveɪsɪv/
Etymology From French évasif, from Latin ēvādō.
1
Tending to avoid speaking openly or making revelations about oneself.
- evasive behaviour
- evasive response
2
Directed towards avoidance or escape
- take evasive action
- evasive manoeuvre
- Synonyms
- elusive, slippery, shifty, cagey, elusory, sly, noncommittal, unclear, vague, equivocal, ambiguous, tricky, deceitful, devious
- Derived terms
- evasive action, evasively, evasiveness, immunoevasive, inevasive, nonevasive, unevasive