'Fugitive' definitions:
Definition of 'fugitive'
From: WordNet
adjective
Lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse" [syn: fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous, momentary]
noun
Someone who flees from an uncongenial situation; "fugitives from the sweatshops" [syn: fugitive, runaway, fleer]
noun
Someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice [syn: fugitive, fugitive from justice]
Definition of 'Fugitive'
From: GCIDE
- Fugitive \Fu"gi*tive\, a. [OE. fugitif, F. fugitif, fr. L. fugitivus, fr. fugere to flee. See Bow to bend, and cf. Feverfew.]
- 1. Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor. [1913 Webster]
- The fugitive Parthians follow. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Can a fugitive daughter enjoy herself while her parents are in tear? --Richardson [1913 Webster]
- A libellous pamphlet of a fugitive physician. --Sir H. Wotton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away; volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; -- applied to material and immaterial things; as, fugitive colors; a fugitive idea. [1913 Webster]
- The me more tender and fugitive parts, the leaves . . . of vegatables. --Woodward. [1913 Webster]
- Fugitive compositions, Such as are short and occasional, and so published that they quickly escape notice.
- Syn: Fleeting; unstable; wandering; uncertain; volatile; fugacious; fleeing; evanescent. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fugitive'
From: GCIDE
- Fugitive \Fu"gi*tive\, n.
- 1. One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Something hard to be caught or detained. [1913 Webster]
- Or Catch that airy fugitive called wit. --Harte. [1913 Webster]
- Fugitive from justice (Law), one who, having committed a crime in one jurisdiction, flees or escapes into another to avoid punishment. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fugitive'
From: Easton
- Fugitive Gen. 4:12, 14, a rover or wanderer (Heb. n'a); Judg. 12:4, a refugee, one who has escaped (Heb. palit); 2 Kings 25:11, a deserter, one who has fallen away to the enemy (Heb. nophel); Ezek. 17:21, one who has broken away in flight (Heb. mibrah); Isa. 15:5; 43:14, a breaker away, a fugitive (Heb. beriah), one who flees away.
Synonyms of 'fugitive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absconder,
- at large,
- betrayer,
- bolter,
- brief,
- brittle,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- circumforaneous,
- convict,
- corruptible,
- criminal,
- crook,
- deceiver,
- deciduous,
- deserter,
- desperado,
- desperate criminal,
- disappearing,
- discursive,
- disengaged,
- displaced person,
- dissolving,
- divagatory,
- double-dealer,
- DP,
- drifting,
- dying,
- eloper,
- emigre,
- ephemeral,
- errant,
- escape artist,
- escaped,
- escapee,
- escaper,
- escapist,
- evacuee,
- evanescent,
- evaporating,
- fading,
- felon,
- fickle,
- fled,
- fleeing,
- fleer,
- fleeting,
- flitting,
- floating,
- flown,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- footloose,
- footloose and fancy-free,
- fragile,
- frail,
- free,
- fugacious,
- gadding,
- gallows bird,
- gangster,
- gaolbird,
- gypsy-like,
- gypsyish,
- hot,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- in flight,
- inconstant,
- insubstantial,
- jailbird,
- Judas,
- landloping,
- lawbreaker,
- loose,
- meandering,
- melting,
- migrational,
- migratory,
- mobster,
- momentary,
- mortal,
- mutable,
- nomad,
- nomadic,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- on the lam,
- on the loose,
- out of,
- outlaw,
- passing,
- perishable,
- public enemy,
- quisling,
- racketeer,
- rambling,
- ranging,
- refugee,
- roaming,
- roving,
- runagate,
- runaway,
- running away,
- scofflaw,
- scot-free,
- shifting,
- short-lived,
- skedaddler,
- stateless person,
- straggling,
- straying,
- strolling,
- swindler,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- thief,
- thug,
- traipsing,
- traitor,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- transmigratory,
- two-timer,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unstable,
- vagabond,
- vagrant,
- vanishing,
- volatile,
- wandering,
- well out of