fugitive
/ˈfjuːd͡ʒɪtɪv/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.54 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who flees or escapes and travels secretly from place to place, and sometimes using disguises and aliases to conceal their identity, as to avoid law authorities in order to avoid an arrest or prosecution, or to avoid some other unwanted situation.
adj
Fleeing or running away; escaping.
Example Sentences
- "“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—!”"
- "I found afterwards that he was the chauffeur, who filled the gaps left by a succession of fugitive butlers."
- "Turmeric can also dye a yellow, but it is very fugitive."
- "Her son Thomas was fugitived in the persecution."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg-der. Proto-Italic *fugjō Latin fugiō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin -tō Latin fugitō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Latin fugitīvusder. Middle English fugitive English fugitive From Middle English fugitive, fugityve, fugityf, fugitife, fugytif, fugitif, from Latin fugitīvus, from fugitō, from fugiō.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *bʰewg-, fugitive, fugitīvus
Usage
Inflected Forms
fugitives (plural)
more fugitive (comparative)
most fugitive (superlative)
fugitives (present, singular)
fugitiving (participle, present)
fugitived (participle, past)
fugitived (past)