Definition of Fugitive

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Fugitive

Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor.

Not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away; volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; -- applied to material and immaterial things; as, fugitive colors; a fugitive idea.

One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice.

Something hard to be caught or detained.

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Fugitive Quotations

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.
Joan Rivers

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
Frederick Douglass

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
Eric Hoffer

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
George Santayana

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
Charles Baudelaire

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.
Jay Alan Sekulow

We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased.
Norman Jewison

When we were making The Fugitive, we all thought it was going to bomb.
Joe Pantoliano

The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals.
Edward Blake

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
Pierre Charles Baudelaire

Fugitive Translations

fugitive in Latin is profugus
fugitive in Norwegian is flyktning, flyktig, flyktende
fugitive in Spanish is fugitivo
fugitive in Swedish is flykting

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