Fugitive

Quick meaning: Fugitive is a noun meaning Fleeing or running away; escaping.

Meaning

Fleeing or running away; escaping.

More Meanings

1. Transient, fleeting or ephemeral.
2. Elusive or difficult to retain.
3. (transitive) To render someone a fugitive; to drive into escape or exile.
4. A person who flees or escapes and travels secretly from place to place, and sometimes using disguises and aliases to conceal their identity, as to avoid law authorities in order to avoid an arrest or prosecution, or to avoid some other unwanted situation.

Example Sentences

Her son Thomas was fugitived in the persecution.

I found afterwards that he was the chauffeur, who filled the gaps left by a succession of fugitive butlers.

“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,[…]the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!”

Word Forms

• fugitives
• fugitiving
• fugitived

Synonyms for fugitive

Depending on context, synonyms include abscotchalater, nomad, wanderer, runaway, short, fleeting.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include runaway, short, fleeting, momentary, momentaneous, absconding.

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