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fugitive

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of fugitive

1 hard to find, capture, or isolate

  • that fugitive trait called artistic creativity
Synonyms of fugitive

elusive, evasive, slippery
Words Related to fugitive

cagey (also cagy), shifty

ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, impermanent, momentary, passing, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitory

inaccessible, inconvenient, unapproachable, unattainable, unavailable, unobtainable, unreachable, untouchable
Near Antonyms of fugitive

accessible, approachable, attainable, available, convenient, obtainable, reachable

2 lasting only for a short time

  • had fugitive thoughts of leaving town after finishing high school but never acted on them
Synonyms of fugitive

brief, deciduous, ephemeral, evanescent, flash, fleeting, fugacious, impermanent, momentary, passing, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitory
Words Related to fugitive

little, short, shortish

acting, interim, provisional, short-term
Near Antonyms of fugitive

lifelong

continuing, durable, persistent

imperishable, indefectible, indestructible
Antonyms of fugitive

ceaseless, dateless, deathless, endless, enduring, eternal, everlasting, immortal, lasting, long-lived, permanent, perpetual, timeless, undying, unending

3 traveling from place to place

  • a small fugitive circus that traveled the countryside
Synonyms of fugitive

ambulant, ambulatory, errant, gallivanting (also galavanting), itinerant, nomad, nomadic, perambulatory, peregrine, peripatetic, ranging, roaming, roving, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, wayfaring
Words Related to fugitive

drifting, footloose, meandering, rambling

sauntering, strolling, traipsing, walking

migrant, migratory
Phrases Synonymous with fugitive

on the move
Near Antonyms of fugitive

immobile, nonmoving, settled, standing, static, stationary

motionless, still

Synonym Discussion of fugitive

transient, transitory, ephemeral, momentary, fugitive, fleeting, evanescent mean lasting or staying only a short time. transient applies to what is actually short in its duration or stay.
    • a hotel catering primarily to transient guests
transitory applies to what is by its nature or essence bound to change, pass, or come to an end.
    • fame in the movies is transitory
ephemeral implies striking brevity of life or duration.
    • many slang words are ephemeral
momentary suggests coming and going quickly and therefore being merely a brief interruption of a more enduring state.
    • my feelings of guilt were only momentary
fugitive and fleeting imply passing so quickly as to make apprehending difficult.
    • let a fugitive smile flit across his face
    • fleeting moments of joy
evanescent suggests a quick vanishing and an airy or fragile quality.
    • the story has an evanescent touch of whimsy that is lost in translation

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