Word Meanings - EVASIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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. --
Additional info about word: EVASIVE
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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EVASIVE)
- Slippery
- Smooth
- glassy
- lubricated
- insecure
- perilous
- unsafe
- unstable
- shifty
- elusive
- shuffling
- unprincipled
- deceptive
- evasive
- untrustworthy
- uncertain
Related words: (words related to EVASIVE)
- SMOOTHEN
To make smooth. - PERILOUS
1. Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking. Infamous hills, and sandy, perilous wilds. Milton. 2. Daring; reckless; dangerous. Latimer. For I am perilous with knife in hand. Chaucer. - SMOOTHNESS
Quality or state of being smooth. - SMOOTH
1. The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths. Thackeray. 2. That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything. "The smooth of his neck." Gen. xxvii. 16. - SMOOTH-CHINNED
Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton. - UNCERTAINTY
1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange. - ELUSIVE
Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious. Elusive of the bridal day, she gives Fond hopes to all, and all with hopes deceives. Pope. -- E*lu"sive*ly, adv. -- E*lu"sive*ness, n. - SMOOTHLY
In a smooth manner. - SHUFFLE
1. To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand. 2. To mix by pushing or shoving; to confuse; to throw into disorder; especially, to change the relative positions of, as of the cards in a pack. - UNCERTAINLY
In an uncertain manner. - SMOOTH-SPOKEN
Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued. - SMOOTHER
One who, or that which, smooths. - SMOOTHING
fr. Smooth, v. Smoothing iron, an iron instrument with a polished face, for smoothing clothes; a sadiron; a flatiron. -- Smoothing plane, a short, finely set plane, for smoothing and finishing work. - SHUFFLEBOARD
See SHOVELBOARD - INSECURENESS
Insecurity. - UNSTABLE
Not stable; not firm, fixed, or constant; subject to change or overthrow. -- Un*sta"ble*ness, n. Chaucer. Unstable equilibrium. See Stable equilibrium, under Stable. - SHUFFLING
1. Moving with a dragging, scraping step. "A shuffling nag." Shak. 2. Evasive; as, a shuffling excuse. T. Burnet. - SLIPPERY
1. Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery. 2. Not affording firm ground for confidence; - UNPRINCIPLE
To destroy the moral principles of. - LUBRICATE
1. To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied. S. Sharp. Supples, lubricates, and keeps in play, The various movements of this nice machine. Young. 2. To apply a lubricant - DELUSIVE
Apt or fitted to delude; tending to mislead the mind; deceptive; beguiling; delusory; as, delusive arts; a delusive dream. Delusive and unsubstantial ideas. Whewell. -- De*lu"sive*ly, adv. -- De*lu"sive*ness, n. - PRELUSIVE
Of the nature of a prelude; introductory; indicating that something of a like kind is to follow. "Prelusive drops." Thomson. -- Pre*lu"sive*ly, adv.