• IPA: /ˈfjuːd͡ʒɪtɪv/

fugitive (plural fugitives)

1. A person who flees or escapes and travels secretly from place to place, and sometimes using disguises and aliases to conceal his/her identity, as to avoid law authorities in order to avoid an arrest or prosecution; or to avoid some other unwanted situation.
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:

     “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, […] the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!”

• abscotchalater (archaic)
• nomad
• wanderer
• runaway

• French: fugitif, fugitive
• German: Flüchtling
• Italian: latitante
• Portuguese: fugitivo, foragido
• Russian: бегле́ц
• Spanish: fugitivo, prófugo

fugitive

1. fleeing or running away
2. transient, fleeting or ephemeral
3. elusive or difficult to retain

• German: flüchtig
• Italian: latitante
• Portuguese: fugitivo, foragido
• Russian: бе́глый
• Spanish: fugitivo

• French: éphémère
• German: flüchtig, vorübergehend, kurzlebig
• Portuguese: efêmero
• Spanish: fugaz

• French: fuyant
• German: flüchtig
• Portuguese: esquivo