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Fugitive vs Transitory - What's the difference?

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Fugitive is a synonym of transitory.


As adjectives the difference between fugitive and transitory

is that fugitive is fleeing or running away while transitory is lasting only a short time; temporary.

As a noun fugitive

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

fugitive

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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—!”
  • Adjective

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

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lasting only a short time; temporary.
  • * 1704 , , Section I - The Introduction,
  • Secondly, that the materials being very transitory , have suffered much from inclemencies of air, especially in these north-west regions.
  • * 1839 , , Chapter 38,
  • Quite unconscious of the demonstrations of their amorous neighbour, or their effects upon the susceptible bosom of her mama, Kate Nickleby had, by this time, begun to enjoy a settled feeling of tranquillity and happiness, to which, even in occasional and transitory glimpses, she had long been a stranger.
  • * 1922 , , Book Three, Chapter II: A Matter of Aesthetics,
  • For a moment she paused by the taxi-stand and watched them--wondering that but a few years before she had been of their number, ever setting out for a radiant Somewhere, always just about to have that ultimate passionate adventure for which the girls' cloaks were delicate and beautifully furred, for which their cheeks were painted and their hearts higher than the transitory dome of pleasure that would engulf them, coiffure, cloak, and all.
  • (legal, of an action) That may be brought in any county; opposed to local .
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