evasive

evasive is a 7-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice.
2. adjective. deliberately vague or ambiguous

   "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"

   "an evasive statement"

3. adjective. avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire

   "pilots are taught to take evasive action"

Common word forms

evasively, evasiveness

Words from these letters

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