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Fugitive vs Wandering - What's the difference?

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Fugitive is a synonym of wandering.


As nouns the difference between fugitive and wandering

is that fugitive is a person who is fleeing or escaping from something, especially prosecution while wandering is travelling with no preset route; roaming.

As adjectives the difference between fugitive and wandering

is that fugitive is fleeing or running away while wandering is which wanders; travelling from place to place.

As a verb wandering is

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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
  • wandering

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Which wanders; travelling from place to place.
  • (medicine, of an organ) Abnormally capable of moving in certain directions.
  • a wandering''' kidney; a '''wandering liver

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from wandering) * wandering abscess * wandering albatross * wandering cell * wandering dune * wandering Jew * wandering kidney * wandering liver * wandering mouse * wandering pacemaker * wandering sequence * wandering set * wandering spider * wandering tattler

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Travelling with no preset route; roaming.
  • Irregular turning of the eyes.
  • Aimless thought.
  • Straying from a desired path.
  • (chiefly, in the plural) Disordered speech or delirium.
  • Verb

    (head)