evasively

1. 1.

   with evasion; in an evasive manner

   “her husband seemed to know many of the people who were named, but he replied evasively when asked who they were”

Questions about evasively

What does evasively mean?

evasively means "with evasion; in an evasive manner".

How many syllables are in evasively?

evasively has 5 syllables and divides as e-va-si-ve-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is evasively a common word?

evasively is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.