Evasive vs Timid - What's the difference?
evasive | timid |
Tending to avoid speaking openly or making revelations about oneself.
Directed towards avoidance or escape; evasive action .
Lacking in courage or confidence.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19
As adjectives the difference between evasive and timid
is that evasive is tending to avoid speaking openly or making revelations about oneself while timid is lacking in courage or confidence.evasive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* elusive, slippery, shifty, cagey, elusory, sly, noncommital * unclear, vague, equivocal, ambiguous * tricky, deceitful, deviousDerived terms
* (l) * (l)timid
English
Adjective
(er)citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. […]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.}}