What is the difference between evasive and furtive?

As adjectives the difference between evasive and furtive

is that evasive is tending to avoid speaking openly or making revelations about oneself while furtive is stealthy.

(en adjective)

Tending to avoid speaking openly or making revelations about oneself.

Directed towards avoidance or escape; evasive action .

* elusive, slippery, shifty, cagey, elusory, sly, noncommital * unclear, vague, equivocal, ambiguous * tricky, deceitful, devious

* (l) * (l)

(en adjective)

stealthy

Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.

* 1949 , George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four , p31

But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control.

* (stealthy) surreptitious * See also

* furtively * furtiveness