Synonyms and Antonyms of fugitive
1
hard to find, capture, or isolate
- that fugitive trait called artistic creativity
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
brief, deciduous, ephemeral, evanescent, flash, fleeting, fugacious, impermanent, momentary, passing, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitory
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
ambulant, ambulatory, errant, gallivanting (also galavanting), itinerant, nomad, nomadic, perambulatory, peregrine, peripatetic, ranging, roaming, roving, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, wayfaring
