Evasive means te ndi ng to avoid or to escape.
shiftyly
a noun. the act of avoiding or hiding.
His answers where brief and evasive
The spelling "waffling" means indecisive or evasive. It is often pronounced waffle-ing.
Evasive Space happened in 2009.
The base word of "evasive" is "evasion".
The word 'evasive' is an adjective. An adjective does not have a plural form.Adjectives have a positive, comparative, and superlative form, for example:evasive (positive)more evasive (comparative)most evasive (superlative)
The root "-vad-" in words like invade and evasive comes from the Latin word "vadere," which means "to go." It implies the idea of moving into or through something, as seen in invade meaning to enter or intrude upon, and evasive meaning to avoid or escape through cleverness or trickery.
I'd probably use 'about', but I don't think it 'needs' either. "When asked to explain his whereabouts, Peter was evasive." or "Peter was evasive about where he had been, when he was asked."
Cunning, deceptive, evasive, indirect, misleading, slippery, vague
The origin of evasive is evade. This word meens to get away with or from something.