EVASIVE
\ɪvˈe͡ɪsɪv], \ɪvˈeɪsɪv], \ɪ_v_ˈeɪ_s_ɪ_v]\
Definitions of EVASIVE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire; "pilots are taught to take evasive action"
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deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement"
By Princeton University
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avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire; "pilots are taught to take evasive action"
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deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement"
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By Oddity Software
By Noah Webster.
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Evasiveness.
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That evades or seeks to evade: not straightforward: shuffling.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Practising evasion, elusive; containing an evasion, sophistical.
By Thomas Sheridan
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