Definition Dictionary

Entirely lacking a specified quality or thing.

A strong dislike that creates a wish to avoid something.

Left without something needed or valued, often through loss.

To escape capture or remain beyond someone's grasp or understanding.

To use ambiguous or evasive language to avoid a clear commitment.

The use of ambiguous or evasive language to avoid a clear statement.

To avoid something by maneuvering around it or refusing to address it directly.

An act of avoiding a duty, difficulty, or direct response.

Avoiding a direct answer, clear commitment, or straightforward course of action.

Careful to avoid unnecessary spending or waste.

Fairness that avoids favoring a person, side, or viewpoint without reason.

Certain to occur or impossible to avoid.

A policy favoring avoidance of international alliances, obligations, or intervention.

Restraint that avoids excess or extremes.

Avoiding a definite position, opinion, or promise.

To avoid being fully truthful by using evasive statements.

Avoiding company and preferring seclusion.

Done secretly to avoid notice or disapproval.

Avoiding social engagement or showing little outward response to others.