evasive
(adjective) deliberately vague or ambiguous; “his answers were brief, constrained and evasive”; “an evasive statement”
evasive
(adjective) avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire; “pilots are taught to take evasive action”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
evasive (comparative more evasive, superlative most evasive)
Tending to avoid speaking openly or making revelations about oneself.
Directed towards avoidance or escape; evasive action.
• elusive, slippery, shifty, cagey, elusory, sly, noncommittal
• unclear, vague, equivocal, ambiguous
• tricky, deceitful, devious
Source: Wiktionary
E*va"sive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. Ă©vasif. See Evade.]
Definition: Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice. Thus he, though conscious of the ethereal guest, Answered evasive of the sly request. Pope. Stammered out a few evasive phrases. Macaulay.
– E*va"sive*ly , adv.
– E*va"sive*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 January 2025
(noun) memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe)
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
