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| Main Entry: | fugitive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fleeing, transient |
| Synonyms: | brief, criminal, elusive, ephemeral, errant, erratic, evanescent, fleeting, flitting, flying*, hot*, impermanent, momentary, moving, passing, planetary, short*, short-lived, temporary, transitory, unstable, volatile, wandering, wanted, avoiding, escaping, evading, fugacious, lamster, on the lam, running away |
| Antonyms: | confronting, facing, permanent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fugitive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person escaping from law or other pursuer |
| Synonyms: | émigré, derelict, deserter, displaced person, escapee, exile, fly-by-night*, hermit, outcast, outlaw, recluse, refugee, runaway, stray, transient, truant, vagabond, waif, bolter, dodger, escaper, evacuee, hunted person, runagate, walkout |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | criminal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who breaks the law |
| Synonyms: | con, convict, crook, culprit, delinquent, desperado, evildoer, felon, fugitive, gangster, heavy*, hood*, hoodlum, hooligan*, hustler, lawbreaker, malefactor, mobster, mug, muscle*, offender, outlaw, racketeer, sinner, thug*, trespasser, wrongdoer, bad actor, black marketeer, blackmailer, deuce, ex-con, guerilla, inside person, jailbird, repeater, scofflaw, slippery eel, transgressor, yardbird |
| Antonyms: | law, police |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | culprit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person responsible for wrongdoing |
| Synonyms: | con, convict, criminal, delinquent, evildoer, felon, fugitive, malefactor, miscreant, offender, rascal, sinner, wrongdoer, ex-con, guilty party, jailbird, transgressor, yardbird |
| Main Entry: | elusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | evasive, mysterious |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, baffling, cagey, deceitful, deceptive, equivocal, evanescent, fallacious, fleeting, fraudulent, fugitive, greasy, illusory, incomprehensible, insubstantial, intangible, misleading, occult, phantom, puzzling, shifty, shy, slippery, subtle, transient, transitory, tricky, volatile, difficult to catch, elusory, fugacious, imponderable, indefinable, stonewalling, unspecific |
| Notes: | elusive is used when what is being avoided is physical capture or apprehension, whereas evasive is used when what is being avoided is direct or relevant response to a verbal challenge illusory means based on or having the nature of an illusion; elusive means difficult to describe or skillful at eluding capture |
| Antonyms: | confronting, facing, inviting, attracting, encountering, enticing |
| Main Entry: | emigrant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who leaves his or her native country |
| Synonyms: | émigré, alien, colonist, displaced person, exile, expatriate, fugitive, migrant, outcast, pilgrim, refugee, traveler, wanderer, wayfarer, departer, evacuee, migrator |
| Antonyms: | native, nationalist |
| Main Entry: | ephemeral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | momentary, passing |
| Synonyms: | brief, episodic, evanescent, fleeting, flitting, fugitive, impermanent, short, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitory, volatile, fugacious, unenduring |
| Antonyms: | enduring, eternal, everlasting, interminable, lasting, long, permanent, perpetual |
| Main Entry: | evasive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceitful, tricky |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, cagey, cunning, deceptive, devious, elusive, false, fugitive, greasy, indirect, intangible, lying, misleading, oblique, shifty, slippery, sly, unclear, vague, casuistic, casuistical, dissembling, elusory, equivocating, prevaricating, shuffling, sophistical, stonewalling |
| Antonyms: | direct, forthright, honest, ready, straight, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | fleeting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brief, transient |
| Synonyms: | cursory, ephemeral, evanescent, fading, flash in the pan*, flitting, flying, fugitive, impermanent, meteoric, momentary, passing, short, short-lived, sudden, temporary, transitory, vanishing, volatile, fugacious |
| Antonyms: | constant, continual, endless, enduring, lasting, lengthy, long, permanent, perpetual, long-lived |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lawbreaker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | criminal |
| Synonyms: | con, convict, crook, culprit, delinquent, felon, fugitive, gangster, hood*, hoodlum, hooligan, malefactor, mobster, offender, outlaw, racketeer, black marketeer, blackmailer, jailbird, scofflaw |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | momentary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brief, fleeting |
| Synonyms: | cursory, dreamlike, ephemeral, evanescent, flitting*, flying, fugitive, hasty, impermanent, impulsive, instantaneous, passing, quick, short, short-lived, spasmodic, summary, temporary, transient, transitory, vanishing, volatile, flashing, fugacious, gone in flash, in wink of an eye, like lightning, shifting |
| Antonyms: | lasting, long-lasting, permanent, staying |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | outcast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is unwanted, not accepted |
| Synonyms: | bum*, castaway, derelict, displaced person, exile, expatriate, fugitive, gypsy, hobo*, persona non grata*, rascal, refugee, reprobate, tramp, untouchable, vagabond, vagrant, wretch, deportee |
| Antonyms: | favorite, friend, idol |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | outlaw |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is running from the law |
| Synonyms: | bandit, brigand, con, criminal, crook, desperado, drifter, fugitive, gangster, hood*, hoodlum, hooligan*, marauder, mobster, mug*, outcast, pariah, racketeer, robber, ex-con, gunslinger, jailbird, wrong number |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pariah |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | social outcast |
| Synonyms: | bum*, castaway, derelict, displaced person, exile, expatriate, fugitive, hobo*, leper, outsider, persona non grata*, rascal, refugee, tramp, undesirable, vagabond, vagrant, waif, deportee |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | passing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brief, casual |
| Synonyms: | cursory, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, fugitive, hasty, impermanent, momentary, quick, shallow, short, short-lived, slight, superficial, temporary, transient, transitory, fugacious, glancing |
| Antonyms: | lasting, long-lasting, permanent |
| Main Entry: | refugee |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person running from something, often oppression |
| Synonyms: | émigré, alien, castaway, derelict, deserter, displaced person, emigrant, escapee, exile, expatriate, foreigner, foundling, fugitive, leper, maroon, outcast, outlaw, prodigal, renegade, runaway, DP, boat person, defector, evacuee, expellee, homeless person, stateless person |
| Main Entry: | renegade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is rebellious |
| Synonyms: | apostate, betrayer, deserter, dissident, escapee, exile, fugitive, heretic, iconoclast, insurgent, mutineer, outlaw, rebel, recreant, refugee, runaway, snake*, snake in the grass, traitor, turnabout, turncoat, abandoner, backslider, defector, double-crosser, forsaker, schismatic, tergiversator |
| Antonyms: | adherent, follower, passivist |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | runaway |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | out of control |
| Synonyms: | delinquent, disorderly, escaped, fugitive, loose, running, uncontrolled, wild, fleeing, out of hand |
| Antonyms: | stable, steady, controlled, staying |
| Main Entry: | runaway |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is trying to escape |
| Synonyms: | absconder, delinquent, deserter, escapee, fugitive, lawbreaker, maroon, offender, truant, escaper, wanted person |
| Main Entry: | short-lived |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not around for long |
| Synonyms: | brief, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, fly-by-night, fugitive, impermanent, momentary, passing, quick, short, temporary, transient, transitory, deciduous, fugacious, gone in a heartbeat, of short duration, over in a heartbeat, short-haul, short-run, short-term |
| Antonyms: | enduring, ethereal, lasting, lengthy, permanent, long-lived |
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