What is another word for evasive?
630 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ɪvˈe͡ɪsɪv], [ ɪvˈeɪsɪv], [ ɪ_v_ˈeɪ_s_ɪ_v]Table of Contents
Similar words for evasive:- all (adjective)
- coy (adjective)
- cryptic (adjective)
- deceitful, tricky (adjective)
- deceptive (adjective)
- devious (adjective)
- equivocal (adjective)
- furtive (adjective)
- indefinite (adjective)
- insincere (adjective)
- intangible (adjective)
- mala fide (adjective)
- misleading (adjective)
- noncommittal (adjective)
- roundabout (adjective)
- shifty (adjective)
- slippery (adjective)
- uncommunicative (adjective)
- unwilling (adjective)
- artful (noun)
- evasive (noun)
- phoniness (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Evasive:
adj.
•all (adjective) •coy (adjective)- de-mure,
- kittenish,
- more rabbity,
- re-tiring,
- most rabbity,
- re-served,
- un assertive,
- more overmodest,
- un-assertive,
- more unassertive,
- self effacing,
- re served,
- most overmodest,
- de mure,
- shrinking,
- most unassertive,
- prudish,
- over modest,
- re tiring,
- selfeffacing.
- in-comprehensible,
- mystifying,
- in comprehensible,
- puzzling,
- un clearest,
- more delphic,
- un-clearest,
- in explicable,
- more uninformative,
- un clear,
- un fathomable,
- un-clearer,
- un clearer,
- un-informative,
- most uninformative,
- un informative,
- more delphian,
- opaque,
- most delphian,
- in-explicable,
- most enigmatic,
- un-fathomable,
- most delphic,
- un-clear.
- dissembling,
- ambiguous,
- false,
- unclear,
- indirect,
- stonewalling,
- Equivocating,
- elusive,
- Prevaricating,
- fugitive,
- vague,
- shuffling,
- greasy,
- deceptive,
- casuistic,
- lying,
- cagey,
- oblique,
- sly,
- Elusory.
- doubledealing,
- faking out,
- most obliquitous,
- more obliquitous,
- under handed,
- playing politics,
- shady,
- in direct,
- in-direct,
- under-handed.
- hush hush,
- most slinking,
- dis guised,
- under wraps,
- most sub-rosa,
- most sub rosa,
- most under the table,
- more skulking,
- dis-guised,
- most conspiratorial,
- most skulking,
- most under-the-table,
- more sub rosa,
- subrosa,
- more conspiratorial,
- under hand,
- under cover,
- more subrosa,
- more slinking,
- under-hand,
- more sub-rosa,
- under-cover,
- masked,
- more under the table,
- more under-the-table,
- most subrosa,
- hushhush.
- more indeterminable,
- in-numerable,
- un dependable,
- un-fixed,
- in definite,
- un known,
- in determinable,
- un specific,
- in-determinable,
- in exact,
- ill defined,
- un determined,
- most unspecific,
- in numerable,
- in finite,
- un settled,
- in-exhaustible,
- more unfixed,
- un defined,
- most indeterminable,
- in exhaustible,
- un-dependable,
- un-sure,
- illdefined,
- innumerable,
- un fixed,
- un-determined,
- inexact,
- in-definite,
- un-limited,
- in-exact,
- un-settled,
- un-specific,
- most unfixed,
- un-defined,
- in-finite,
- more imprecise,
- more unspecific,
- un sure,
- most imprecise,
- un-known.
- un truthful,
- most puton,
- twofaced,
- hypo-critical,
- un-truer,
- un-truest,
- perfidious,
- hypo critical,
- puton,
- more dissimulating,
- insincere,
- un truer,
- snide,
- in sincerest,
- two faced,
- more puton,
- most dissimulating,
- most dissembling,
- in sincerer,
- mendacious,
- un-faithful,
- most put-on,
- dis-ingenuous,
- in-sincerer,
- un truest,
- in-sincere,
- more put-on,
- dis simulating,
- dis ingenuous,
- in-sincerest,
- more put on,
- un-truthful,
- more dissembling,
- in sincere,
- un faithful,
- most put on,
- dis-simulating.
- evanescent,
- un apparent,
- in-tangible,
- most evading,
- in visible,
- in appreciable,
- un-substantial,
- un-apparent,
- hypothetical,
- in-visible,
- in-corporeal,
- more eluding,
- in sensible,
- un-real,
- most eluding,
- hypo-thetical,
- un substantial,
- in-appreciable,
- in tangible,
- un observable,
- more unapparent,
- in-sensible,
- more evading,
- most unapparent,
- in corporeal,
- hypo thetical,
- un-observable,
- unapparent.
- mis-leading,
- more demagogic,
- be wildering,
- be-wildering,
- most demagogic,
- most confounding,
- more deluding,
- most deceiving,
- more confounding,
- most casuistical,
- more distracting,
- more casuistical,
- most deluding,
- most bewildering,
- more sophistical,
- in accurate,
- mis leading,
- most beguiling,
- more deceiving,
- most sophistical,
- more bewildering,
- most distracting.
- even steven,
- unrevealing,
- non-committal,
- on-the-fence,
- buttoned up,
- even-steven,
- Middle-ground,
- clammed up.
- more contriving,
- Unhonest,
- fly by night,
- dis-honest,
- most prevaricative,
- more prevaricative,
- un principled,
- more conniving,
- more prevaricatory,
- most dodging,
- most prevaricatory,
- un honest,
- most equivocating,
- un-principled,
- most contriving,
- most shuffling,
- more equivocating,
- dis honest,
- more shuffling,
- more dodging,
- most conniving,
- un-honest,
- more unhonest,
- most unhonest.
- mutable,
- un-safe,
- un safest,
- un steady,
- un predictable,
- un-steadier,
- un-stablest,
- un-stable,
- in secure,
- un stable,
- un safe,
- un stabler,
- in-securer,
- un-stabler,
- un steadiest,
- in-constant,
- un-safest,
- un-steadiest,
- in-securest,
- un-safer,
- un steadier,
- un safer,
- un stablest,
- un-predictable,
- in-secure,
- in securest,
- un-trustworthy,
- in securer.
n.
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- seek.
- backhandeds,
- falses,
- dissimulatings,
- two faceds,
- snides,
- lyings,
- pretentiou,
- mendaciou,
- perfidiou,
- dissemblings,
- shifties,
- disingenuou,
- untruthfuls,
- dis-ingenuousness,
- untrues,
- deceitfuls,
- ambidextrou,
- dis-ingenuousnesses,
- unfaithfuls,
- deceptives,
- un-trues,
- un-faithfuls,
- dis ingenuousness,
- twofaceds,
- hypocriticals,
- deviou,
- un trues,
- dis ingenuousnesses,
- duplicitou,
- un faithfuls,
- two-faceds,
- faithlesses,
- evasives.
Other synonyms:
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- dishonest.
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- unfair.
- demure,
- fleeting,
- shirk,
- artificial,
- subtle,
- shift,
- ingenious,
- immoral,
- secret,
- stealthy,
- unpretentious,
- wishy-washy,
- strategic,
- zigzag,
- elude,
- spurious,
- crooked,
- recourse,
- illusive,
- dodge,
- Trothless,
- duplicitous,
- cautious,
- ill-gotten,
- cautiously,
- shrewd,
- awry,
- discursive,
- diplomatic,
- ambagious,
- picayune,
- insidious,
- unctuous,
- shameless,
- trivial,
- careful,
- carefully,
- specious,
- desertion,
- rambling,
- Hollow-hearted,
- idleness,
- Uningenuous,
- deceitfully,
- circuitous,
- reticent,
- impalpable,
- deviously,
- defection,
- circumvention,
- frustrate,
- tricky,
- transitory,
- scheming,
- flee,
- indefinable,
- dishonorable,
- pettifogging,
- fudge,
- evasiveness,
- Unattempted,
- evasively,
- designing,
- conscienceless,
- diffident,
- sliding,
- recalcitrant,
- astute,
- obliquely,
- petty,
- Transgressive,
- avoidance,
- fake,
- untrustworthy,
- absence,
- secretive,
- feline,
- circumlocutionary,
- pawky,
- scape,
- reluctant,
- clandestine,
- misleadingly,
- bent,
- Unveracious,
- skillful,
- reticently,
- offhand,
- run-around,
- sanctuary,
- up to snuff,
- criminal,
- eschew,
- flinch,
- unassuming,
- Amphibolous,
- duck,
- implied,
- bashful,
- self-conscious,
- unreliable,
- escape,
- smooth,
- avoid,
- slim,
- guarded,
- equivocate,
- retreat,
- slick,
- hairsplitting,
- expansively,
- suspicious,
- unconscientious,
- indirectly,
- protection,
- crafty,
- apostasy,
- wary,
- sharp,
- neutral,
- fallacious,
- ambivalent,
- Truthless,
- vulpine,
- Ad captandum,
- two-faced,
- lawless,
- janus-faced,
- nit-picking,
- timid,
- circuitously,
- Violating,
- elusively,
- circumlocutory,
- evade,
- falsely,
- Subdolous,
- Equivocatory,
- sidelong,
- evasion,
- Avoiding,
- circumvent,
- refuge,
- profound,
- bickering,
- acute,
- retiring,
- Deceiving,
- not kosher,
- politic,
- reserved,
- amoral,
- closemouthed,
- avoiding commitment,
- turbid,
- rotten,
- foxy,
- hidden,
- skulking,
- deceptively,
- tricksy,
- shy,
- clever,
- sinister,
- subterfuge,
- guardedly,
- hollow,
- Contriving,
- vaguely,
- pussyfooting,
- surreptitious,
- escapement,
- resource,
- disloyal,
- questionable,
- fishy,
- canny,
- Forsworn,
- doubtful,
- frustration,
- ambiguously,
- discreet,
- timorous,
- wily,
- Shufflingly,
- underhanded,
- modest,
- captious,
- warily,
- hypocritical,
- self-effacing,
- taciturn,
- arch,
- intriguing,
- truancy,
- collusion,
- wild,
- leery,
- dark,
- disingenuous,
- uncommitted,
- underhand,
- counterfeit,
- timeserving,
- unconscionable,
- deep,
- unsavory,
- excuse,
- calculating,
- sinuous,
- irrelevant,
- knowing,
- tortuous,
- flight,
- Uncandid,
- asylum,
- conniving,
- tergiversating,
- runaway,
- hedging,
- Ill-got,
- escapade,
- avert,
- traitorous,
- ungenuine,
- unsought,
- elusion,
- abscond,
- choplogic,
- sheepish,
- serpentine,
- caviling,
- undependable,
- plausible,
- waffling,
- malingering,
- Amphibolic,
- shirking,
- abandonment,
- abstention,
- trifling,
- abstain,
- slimy,
- obviate,
- unethical,
- illusory,
- getaway,
- blench,
- pseudo,
- weasel-worded,
- paltering,
- avoiding the issue,
- Time-serving,
- shy of,
- corrupted,
- treacherous,
- machiavellian,
- deflect,
- close,
- felonious,
- sneaky,
- faithless,
- bogus,
- baffle,
- reptilian,
- sincere,
- dishonourable,
- speciously,
- shiftily,
- jesuitical,
- shun,
- pretense,
- anfractuous.
Paraphrases for Evasive:
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Independent
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Adjective
unavoidable.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
elusive, non-committal, vague.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Evasive:
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adj.
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deceitful, tricky
direct, honest, truthful, forthright, straightforward, ready, straight, clear, definite.
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Other antonyms:
attainable, reachable, obtainable, unequivocal, convenient, univocal, unprotective, available, accessible, unambiguous, approachable.
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deceitful, tricky
