evasive
US: /iˈveɪzɪv/, /ɪˈveɪzɪv/
UK: /ɪvˈeɪsɪv/
UK: /ɪvˈeɪsɪv/
English Vietnamese dictionary
evasive /i'veisiv/
- tính từ
- lảng tránh, lẩn tránh, thoái thác
- hay lảng tránh, hay lẩn tránh
Advanced English dictionary
+ adjective
not willing to give clear answers to a question: evasive answers / comments / replies + Tessa was evasive about why she had not been at home that night. + John, normally so honest, was now being evasive in the extreme.
evasively adverb: 'I'm not sure,' she replied evasively.
evasiveness noun [U]: Politicians are often accused of evasiveness.
Idioms: take evasive action to act in order to avoid danger or an unpleasant situation: The pilot had to take evasive action to avoid a mid-air collision.
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
devious, indirect, equivocating, equivocal, misleading, oblique, ambiguous, sophistical, casuistic, shifty, dissembling, cunning, tricky, deceitful, Colloq cagey, Jesuitical:
When asked if he had visited her, he gave an evasive reply. She too was evasive about how she had spent the evening.
Concise English dictionary
ɪ'veɪsɪv
adj.
+deliberately vague or ambiguous
+avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire
+skillful at eluding capture
