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Fugitive vs Escaped - What's the difference?

fugitive | escaped |

As adjectives the difference between fugitive and escaped

is that fugitive is fleeing or running away while escaped is that or who has escaped, especially from prison or another place of confinement.

As a noun fugitive

is a person who is fleeing or escaping from something, especially prosecution.

As a verb escaped is

past tense of escape.

fugitive

English

(wikipedia fugitive)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who is fleeing or escaping from something, especially prosecution.
  • *
  • *:“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—!”

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • fleeing or running away
  • transient, fleeting or ephemeral
  • elusive or difficult to retain

    • escaped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (escape)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • That or who has escaped, especially from prison or another place of confinement.
    • People are being warned not to approach the escaped prisoner.