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adj. Running away or fleeing, as from the law.

adj. Lasting only a short time; fleeting: "[His] house and burial place ... should be visited by all who profess even a fugitive interest in political economy” ( John Kenneth Galbraith).

adj. Difficult to comprehend or retain; elusive: fugitive solutions to the problem.

adj. Given to change or disappearance; perishable: fugitive beauty.

adj. Of temporary interest: fugitive essays.

adj. Tending to wander; vagabond.

n. One who flees; a refugee.

n. Something fleeting or ephemeral.

n. A person who is fleeing or escaping from something

adj. fleeing or running away

adj. transient, fleeting or ephemeral

adj. elusive or difficult to retain

adj. Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.

adj. Not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away; volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; -- applied to material and immaterial things

n. One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter.

n. Something hard to be caught or detained.

Fleeing or having fled from danger or pursuit, from duty or service, etc.; escaping; runaway: as, a fugitive criminal or horse.

Wandering; vagabond.

Staying or lasting but a short time; fleeting; not fixed or durable; readily escaping; fugacious: as, a fugitive idea; fugitive odors; fugitive colors.

In lit. of fleeting interest or importance; temporary; occasional: said of compositions, generally short, written for some passing occasion or purpose.

In zoology and botany, same as fugacious.

n. One who flees; a runaway; a deserter; specifically, one who has fled from duty, danger, or restraint to a place of safety or of concealment: as, a fugitive from the battlefield; a fugitive from justice.

n. Anything hard to be caught or detained.

adj. lasting for a markedly brief time

n. someone who flees from an uncongenial situation

n. someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice

"These are things easily obtained in their freshness, but the term fugitive is too expressive of their nature, and after a generation or two they have all flown away, save those which the book-hunter has exorcised into the vaults of some public collection."

short   

person    mortal    individual    someone    soul   

transitory    ephemeral    fugitive-slave laws    fugitive from justice    fugitive colors   

evanescent    volatile    uncertain    unstable    fleeting   

refugee    captive    fleeting    unfortunate    criminal