adj
Meaning 1
Fleeing or running away; escaping.
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
fugitive
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adj
Meaning 2
Transient, fleeting or ephemeral.
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adj
Meaning 3
Elusive or difficult to retain.
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noun
Meaning 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.
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verb
Meaning 5
To render someone a fugitive; to drive into escape or exile.
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Usage: transitive
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adjective satellite
Meaning 6
lasting for a markedly brief time
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a fleeting glance
- fugitive hours
- rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass
- a momentary glimpse
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fleeting, momentaneous, momentary
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: fugitive from justice
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor
Narrower terms: absconder, escapee
noun
Meaning 8
someone who flees from an uncongenial situation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- fugitives from the sweatshops
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: runaway, fleer
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bhewg-der. Proto-Italic *fugjō Latin fugiō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin -tō Latin fugitō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Latin fugitīvusder. Middle English fugitive English fugitive From Middle English fugitive, fugityve, fugityf, fugitife, fugytif, fugitif, from Latin fugitīvus, from fugitō, from fugiō.
Across languages
Translations
174 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: هربان (harbān) — fleeing or running away
- Armenian: փախստական (pʻaxstakan) — fleeing or running away
- Bashkir: ҡасҡын (qasqın) — fleeing or running away
- Bulgarian: бегъл (begǎl) — fleeing or running away
- Catalan: fugitiu — fleeing or running away
- Danish: flygtig — fleeing or running away
- Dutch: voortvluchtig — fleeing or running away
- Dutch: voortvluchtige — fleeing or running away
- Finnish: karkuri — fleeing or running away
- Finnish: karkulainen — fleeing or running away
- Galician: fuxitivo — fleeing or running away
- German: flüchtig — fleeing or running away
- Italian: latitante — fleeing or running away
- Latin: fugitīvus — fleeing or running away
- Māori: taurewa — fleeing or running away
- Norwegian: flyktig — fleeing or running away
- Persian: گریزان (gorizân) — fleeing or running away
- Portuguese: fugitivo — fleeing or running away
- Portuguese: foragido — fleeing or running away
- Romanian: fugitiv — fleeing or running away
- Romanian: fugar — fleeing or running away
- Romanian: trecător — fleeing or running away
- Russian: бе́глый (béglyj) — fleeing or running away
- Spanish: fugitivo — fleeing or running away
- Spanish: irado — fleeing or running away
- Spanish: forajido — fleeing or running away
- Spanish: prófugo — fleeing or running away
- Turkish: firari — fleeing or running away
- Bulgarian: преходен (prehoden) — transient, fleeting or ephemeral
- Bulgarian: кракотраен (krakotraen) — transient, fleeting or ephemeral
- Danish: flygtig — transient, fleeting or ephemeral
- Dutch: voorbijgaand — transient, fleeting or ephemeral
- Finnish: hetkellinen — transient, fleeting or ephemeral
- French: éphémère — transient, fleeting or ephemeral
- German: flüchtig — transient, fleeting or ephemeral
- German: vorübergehend — transient, fleeting or ephemeral
- German: kurzlebig — transient, fleeting or ephemeral
- Norwegian: diffus — transient, fleeting or ephemeral
- Portuguese: efêmero — transient, fleeting or ephemeral
- Russian: мимолётный (mimoljótnyj) — transient, fleeting or ephemeral
- Russian: скороте́чный (skorotéčnyj) — transient, fleeting or ephemeral
- Russian: преходя́щий (prexodjáščij) — transient, fleeting or ephemeral
- Spanish: fugaz — transient, fleeting or ephemeral
- Turkish: geçici — transient, fleeting or ephemeral
- Turkish: gelip geçici — transient, fleeting or ephemeral
- Turkish: kalımsız — transient, fleeting or ephemeral
- Bulgarian: бегъл (begǎl) — elusive or difficult to retain
- Dutch: vluchtig — elusive or difficult to retain
- Finnish: pysymätön — elusive or difficult to retain
- Finnish: saavuttamaton — elusive or difficult to retain
- French: fuyant — elusive or difficult to retain
- German: flüchtig — elusive or difficult to retain
- Norwegian: diffus — elusive or difficult to retain
- Polish: ulotny — elusive or difficult to retain
- Portuguese: esquivo — elusive or difficult to retain
- Afrikaans: vlugteling — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Albanian: arratisur — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Southern Altai: качкын (kačkïn) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Arabic: هَارِب (hārib) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Arabic: هَارِبَة (hāriba) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Armenian: փախստական (pʻaxstakan) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Aromanian: fugar — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Azerbaijani: qaçaq — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Azerbaijani: fərari — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Azerbaijani: qaçqın — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Belarusian: уцяка́ч (ucjakáč) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Belarusian: уцяка́чка (ucjakáčka) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Belarusian: бягле́ц (bjahljéc) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Belarusian: бягля́к (bjahlják) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Belarusian: бягля́чка (bjahljáčka) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Bengali: পলাতক (polatok) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Bulgarian: бегле́ц (begléc) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Burmese: ဝရမ်းပြေး (wa.ram:pre:) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Catalan: fugitiu — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Catalan: pròfug — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Chinese Mandarin: 逃亡者 (táowángzhě) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Chinese Mandarin: 逃犯 (táofàn) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Czech: uprchlík — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Czech: uprchlice — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Czech: utečenec — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Czech: utečenka — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Danish: flygtning — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Dhivehi: ފިލައިގެން (filaigen̊) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Dutch: vluchteling — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Dutch: vluchtelinge — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Dutch: voortvluchtige — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Dzongkha: བྲོས་བྱོལ། (bros byol) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Egyptian: w-a:r-rd-D54 (wꜥr) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Estonian: põgeneja — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Estonian: jooksik — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Finnish: karkulainen — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Finnish: pakolainen — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- French: fugitif — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- French: fugitive — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Galician: fuxitivo — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Georgian: გაქცეული (gakceuli) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Georgian: ლტოლვილი (lṭolvili) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- German: Flüchtling — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Greek: φυγάς (fygás) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Greek: φυγάς (fygás) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Ancient Greek: φυγάς (phugás) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Hebrew: מבוקש — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Hebrew: עבריין נמלט — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Hindi: भगोड़ा (bhagoṛā) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Hindi: भग्गू (bhaggū) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Hungarian: szökevény — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Indonesian: buronan — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Italian: latitante — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Japanese: 逃亡者 (tōbōsha) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Kannada: ತಲೆತಪ್ಪಿಸಿಕೊಂಡವನು (taletappisikoṇḍavanu) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Kazakh: қашқын (qaşqyn) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Kazakh: қашақ (qaşaq) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Khmer: រត់គេចខ្លួន (rŭətkɨckhluən) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Korean: 도망자 (domangja) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Kyrgyz: качкын (kackın) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Lao: ອົບພະຍົບ (ʼop pha nyop) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Latin: fugitīvus — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Latvian: bēglis — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Lithuanian: pabėgėlis — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Macedonian: бегалец (begalec) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Macedonian: бегалка (begalka) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Malay: pelarian — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Māori: taurewa — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Māori: rerenga — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Nepali: भागेको (bhāgeko) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Norwegian Bokmål: rømling — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Old English: flīema — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Pashto: پراري (parārí) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Persian: فراری (farâri) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Polish: uciekinier — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Polish: uciekinierka — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Polish: zbieg — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Portuguese: fugitivo — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Portuguese: foragido — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Romanian: fugar — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Romanian: fugară — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Romanian: evadat — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Romanian: evadată — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Russian: бегле́ц (begléc) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Russian: бегля́нка (begljánka) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Scottish Gaelic: fògarrach — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Serbo-Croatian: бегу́нац — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Serbo-Croatian: бегуница — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Serbo-Croatian: бегунка — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Serbo-Croatian: begúnac — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Serbo-Croatian: begunica — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Serbo-Croatian: begunka — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Sinhalese: පලාගිය (palāgiya) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Slovak: utečenec — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Slovak: utečenkyňa — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Slovak: utečenka — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Slovene: ubežnik — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Slovene: ubežnica — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Spanish: fugitivo — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Spanish: prófugo — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Swedish: flykting — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Tagalog: pugante — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Tajik: фирорӣ (firori) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Telugu: పలాయితుడు (palāyituḍu) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Thai: ผู้หลบหนี (phu lop ni) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Turkish: firari — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Turkish: kaçak — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Ottoman Turkish: قاچاق (kaçak) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Turkmen: gaçgak — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Ukrainian: утіка́ч (utikáč) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Ukrainian: утіка́чка (utikáčka) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Ukrainian: втіка́ч (vtikáč) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Ukrainian: втіка́чка (vtikáčka) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Urdu: مفرور (mafrūr) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Uyghur: قاچقۇن (qachqun) — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Uzbek: qochqin — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Uzbek: qochoq — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Vietnamese: người lánh nạn — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- Welsh: ffoadur — a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
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