fugitive
nounadjectiveverbcommon in dialogue
- //ˈfjuːd͡ʒɪtɪv//
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
- 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.
“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—!”
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.
adjective
- 1
Fleeing or running away; escaping.
I found afterwards that he was the chauffeur, who filled the gaps left by a succession of fugitive butlers.
- 2
Transient, fleeting or ephemeral.
Turmeric can also dye a yellow, but it is very fugitive.
- 3
Elusive or difficult to retain.
verb
- 1
To render someone a fugitive; to drive into escape or exile.
Her son Thomas was fugitived in the persecution.
Forms
- plural
- fugitives
- comparative
- more fugitive
- superlative
- most fugitive
- past tense
- fugitived
- past participle
- fugitived
- present participle
- fugitiving
- third person singular
- fugitives
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