fugitive
Syllables: fu·gi·tive/ˈfjuːd͡ʒɪtɪv/
fugitive noun: 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.
Noun
fugitive (plural fugitives)
- 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.
- “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...1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- abscotchalater, nomad, wanderer, runaway
Adjective
fugitive (comparative more fugitive, superlative most fugitive)
- Fleeing or running away; escaping.
- I found afterwards that he was the chauffeur, who filled the gaps left by a succession of fugitive butlers.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
- Transient, fleeting or ephemeral.
- Turmeric can also dye a yellow, but it is very fugitive.1847, editorial staff, “To Dye Yellow Color”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 9, page 72
- Elusive or difficult to retain.
Verb
fugitive (third-person singular simple present fugitives, present participle fugitiving, simple past and past participle fugitived)
fugitive meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
fugitive in Hindi
- a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- भगोड़ा bhagoṛā, भग्गू bhaggū
fugitive in Tamil
- தப்பி ஒடுபவர், தப்பியோடியவர், தலைமறைவாளர், ஓடுகாலி
fugitive in Urdu
- a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- مفرور mafrūr
fugitive in Bengali
- a person who is fleeing or escaping from something
- পলাতক polatok
More languagesFewer languages
- fugitive in Telugu
- పలాయితుడు palāyituḍu
- fugitive in Malayalam
- ഒളിച്ചോടുന്നയാൾ, ഓടിരക്ഷപ്പെടുന്നയാൾ, ചാടിപ്പോകുന്നയാൾ, പിടിയിൽനിന്നു രക്ഷപ്പെട്ടോടിയവൻ
- fugitive in Kannada
- ತಲೆತಪ್ಪಿಸಿಕೊಂಡವನು taletappisikoṇḍavanu
- fugitive in Sinhala
- පලාගිය palāgiya
- fugitive in Nepali
- भागेको bhāgeko
- fugitive in Pashto
- پراري parārí
- fugitive in Tagalog
- pugante
- fugitive in Arabic
- هَارِب hārib, هَارِبَة hāriba
- fugitive in Malay
- pelarian
- fugitive in Indonesian
- buronan
- fugitive in Persian
- فراری farâri, گریزان gorizân
- fugitive in Thai
- ผู้หลบหนี phu lop ni
- fugitive in Vietnamese
- người lánh nạn
- fugitive in Myanmar
- ဝရမ်းပြေး wa.ram:pre:
- Dhivehi
- ފިލައިގެން filaigen̊
- Dzongkha
- བྲོས་བྱོལ། bros byol
Examples of fugitive in a sentence
- The detective wired ahead, hoping that the fugitive would be caught at the railway station.
- The border has been sealed until the fugitives are found.
- The fugitive vaulted over the fence to escape.
Synonyms of fugitive
Forms of fugitive
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | fugitives |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more fugitive |
| superlative | most fugitive |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | fugitives |
| present participle | fugitiving |
| past participle | fugitived |
| past | fugitived |
Origin of fugitive
From Middle English fugitive, fugityve, fugityf, fugitife, fugytif, fugitif, from Latin fugitīvus, from fugitō, from fugiō.
Words formed from fugitive
Phrases with fugitive
Questions about fugitive
- What does fugitive mean?
- Fugitive means 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.
- What is fugitive in Hindi?
- Fugitive in Hindi is भगोड़ा (bhagoṛā), भग्गू (bhaggū). See Fugitive meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is fugitive?
- Fugitive can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
- How do you pronounce fugitive?
- Fugitive is pronounced /ˈfjuːd͡ʒɪtɪv/.
- What is the plural of fugitive?
- The plural of fugitive is fugitives.
Words near fugitive in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fugitive (page history and authors); fugitive (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fugitive (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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