Fugitive vs Fugacious - What's the difference?
fugitive | fugacious | Synonyms |
A person who is fleeing or escaping from something, especially prosecution.
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*:“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—!”
fleeing or running away
transient, fleeting or ephemeral
elusive or difficult to retain
Fleeting, fading quickly, transient.
* 1906 , O. Henry, "", in The Four Million :
* 1916 , George Edmund De Schweinitz, Diseases of the Eye ,
* 2011 , Michael Feeney Callan, Robert Redford: The Biography , Alfred A. Knopf (2011), ISBN 9780307272973,
Fugitive is a synonym of fugacious.
As adjectives the difference between fugitive and fugacious
is that fugitive is fleeing or running away while fugacious is fleeting, fading quickly, transient.As a noun fugitive
is a person who is fleeing or escaping from something, especially prosecution.fugitive
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(wikipedia fugitive)Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)fugacious
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Restless, shifting, fugacious as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population of the red brick district of the lower West Side. Homeless, they have a hundred homes.
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- Watering of the eye, conjunctival congestion, distinct catarrhal conjunctivitis, and deep-seated scleral congestions, sometimes fugacious , and often accompanied by intense headache
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- It may be that Redford's fugacious nature is not so mysterious, that it is studded in the artwork of the labs and the very stones of Sundance.