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fugitive
adjective
Synonyms and Antonyms of FUGITIVE
1
hard to find, capture, or isolate <that fugitive trait called artistic creativity>
Related Words cagey (also cagy), shifty; ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, impermanent, momentary, passing, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitory; inaccessible, inconvenient, unapproachable, unattainable, unavailable, unobtainable, unreachable, untouchable
2
lasting only for a short time <had fugitive thoughts of leaving town after finishing high school but never acted on them>
Synonyms brief, deciduous, ephemeral, evanescent, flash, fleeting, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, passing, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitory
3
traveling from place to place <a small fugitive circus that traveled the countryside>
Synonyms ambulant, ambulatory, errant, fugitive, gallivanting (also galavanting), nomad, nomadic, perambulatory, peregrine, peripatetic, ranging, roaming, roving, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, wayfaring
Related Words drifting, footloose, meandering, rambling; sauntering, strolling, traipsing, walking; migrant, migratory
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