Another word for fugitive
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Adjective
Fleeing or having fled, as from home, confinement, captivity, or justice
- A person or animal that has run away.
- Something that has escaped control or proper confinement.
- An easy victory.
See also:Lasting or existing only for a short time
- Existing or lasting only a short time; short-lived or temporary:
- Passing with time; transitory:
- Remaining in a place only a brief time:
- Decaying with time, especially as a simple exponential function of time.
- Lasting, used, serving, or enjoyed for a limited time.
- One that serves for a limited time:
- Of, relating to, or limited by time:
- Of or relating to the material world; worldly:
- Lasting only for a time; not eternal; passing:
- Living or lasting only a short time; ephemeral.
- Moving by; going past:
- Of brief duration; transitory:
- Cursory or superficial; casual:
- Lasting for only a moment.
- Occurring or present at every moment:
- Short-lived or ephemeral, as a life.
- Passing away quickly; evanescent.
- Withering or dropping off early.
- Passing quickly; ephemeral:
- A number of warships operating together under one command.
- A group of vessels or vehicles, such as taxicabs or fishing boats, owned or operated as a unit.
- Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
- Lasting for a markedly brief time:
- Having a short lifespan or a short annual period of aboveground growth. Used especially of plants.
- Something, especially a plant, that is ephemeral.
Noun
One who flees, as from home, confinement, captivity, or justice
- A person or animal that has run away.
- Something that has escaped control or proper confinement.
- An easy victory.
- One who flees, especially to another country, seeking refuge from war, political oppression, religious persecution, or a natural disaster.
- One that has escaped, especially an escaped prisoner.
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Another word for fugitive
Noun
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- Unreliable or unscrupulous, especially with regard to business dealings:
- Of an impermanent or insubstantial nature:
- An unreliable or unscrupulous person.
- A horse given to bolting.
- One who gives up membership in or withdraws support from a political party.
- A person who absconds. [First attested in the early 18th century.]
- In the Bible, the son of Abraham who was cast out after the birth of Isaac. He is traditionally considered to be the forebear of the Arabs.
- One that has been excluded from a society or system.
- Deserted by an owner or keeper; abandoned:
- Run-down; dilapidated:
- Neglectful of duty or obligation; remiss.
- To move away from a group, deviate from a course, or escape from established limits:
- To move without a destination or purpose; wander:
- To be directed without apparent purpose; look in an idle or casual manner:
- A homeless person, especially a forsaken or orphaned child.
- An abandoned young animal.
- A person, especially a young woman, who is thin or gaunt.
- A person who moves from place to place without a permanent home and often without a regular means of support.
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of a vagabond.
- To wander or travel about, especially as a vagabond.
- One that has escaped, especially an escaped prisoner.
- The condition or period of being forced to live away from one's native country or home, especially as a punishment.
- The condition or period of self-imposed absence from one's country or home:
- One who lives away from one's native country, whether because of expulsion or voluntary absence.
- One who is absent without permission, especially from school.
- One who shirks work or duty.
- Absent without permission, especially from school.
- A person or animal that has run away.
- Something that has escaped control or proper confinement.
- An easy victory.
- One who flees, especially to another country, seeking refuge from war, political oppression, religious persecution, or a natural disaster.
- A fugitive from the law.
- A habitual criminal.
- A rebel; a nonconformist:
Modifier
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- Present participle of evade.
- Present participle of run away.
- Present participle of flee.
- The act of one who flees.
- Tending to elude capture, perception, comprehension, or memory:
- Difficult to define or describe:
- Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor.
- Passing quickly; ephemeral:
- that wanders; moving from place to place; roaming, roving, straying, etc.
- nomadic
- winding
- Of, involving, or having the nature of crime:
- Relating to the administration of penal law.
- Guilty of crime.
- A fugitive from the law.
- A habitual criminal.
- A rebel; a nonconformist:
- A person or animal that has run away.
- Something that has escaped control or proper confinement.
- An easy victory.
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