Meaning

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..

Definitions by Sense

1. 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.
2. Fleeing or running away; escaping.
3. Transient, fleeting or ephemeral.
4. Elusive or difficult to retain.
5. (transitive) To render someone a fugitive; to drive into escape or exile.

Example Sentences

“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—!”

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

Her son Thomas was fugitived in the persecution.

Word Forms

• fugitives
• more fugitive
• most fugitive
• fugitiving
• fugitived

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When Should You Use Fugitive?

Use fugitive when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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