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say it: i-VAY-ziv
evasive is an adjective meaning "deliberately vague or ambiguous". It carries 2 recorded senses.
deliberately vague or ambiguous
“his answers were brief, constrained and evasive”
“an evasive statement”
avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire
“pilots are taught to take evasive action”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for evasive come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.