I was on the alert for a fugitive criminal.
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Fugitive
//ˈfjuːd͡ʒɪtɪv//
Synonyms for "fugitive" (156 found)
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Strong matches (46)
Related words (78)
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4 entriesderived
7 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
13 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
174 translations across 76 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- vlugteling noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Albanian
1 entries- arratisur noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- φυγάς noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Arabic
3 entries- هربان adj (fleeing or running away)
- هَارِب noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- هَارِبَة noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Armenian
2 entries- փախստական adj (fleeing or running away)
- փախստական noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Aromanian
1 entries- fugar noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- fərari noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- qaçaq noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- qaçqın noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Bashkir
1 entries- ҡасҡын adj (fleeing or running away)
Belarusian
4 entries- бягле́ц noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- бягля́к noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- бягля́чка noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- уцяка́ч noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Bengali
1 entries- পলাতক noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Bulgarian
4 entries- бегъл adj (fleeing or running away)
- бегъл adj (elusive or difficult to retain)
- кракотраен adj (transient, fleeting or ephemeral)
- преходен adj (transient, fleeting or ephemeral)
Burmese
1 entries- ဝရမ်းပြေး noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Catalan
3 entries- fugitiu adj (fleeing or running away)
- fugitiu noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- pròfug noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 逃亡者 noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- 逃犯 noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Czech
4 entries- uprchlice noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- uprchlík noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- utečenec noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- utečenka noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Danish
3 entries- flygtig adj (fleeing or running away)
- flygtig adj (transient, fleeting or ephemeral)
- flygtning noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Dhivehi
1 entries- ފިލައިގެން noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Dutch
4 entries- vluchtig adj (elusive or difficult to retain)
- voorbijgaand adj (transient, fleeting or ephemeral)
- voortvluchtig adj (fleeing or running away)
- voortvluchtige adj (fleeing or running away)
Dzongkha
1 entries- བྲོས་བྱོལ། noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Egyptian
1 entries- w-a:r-rd-D54 noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Estonian
2 entries- jooksik noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- põgeneja noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Finnish
4 entries- hetkellinen adj (transient, fleeting or ephemeral)
- karkulainen adj (fleeing or running away)
- karkuri adj (fleeing or running away)
- pysymätön adj (elusive or difficult to retain)
French
4 entries- fuyant adj (elusive or difficult to retain)
- éphémère adj (transient, fleeting or ephemeral)
- fugitif noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- fugitive noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Galician
2 entries- fuxitivo adj (fleeing or running away)
- fuxitivo noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Georgian
2 entries- გაქცეული noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- ლტოლვილი noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
German
4 entries- flüchtig adj (fleeing or running away)
- flüchtig adj (transient, fleeting or ephemeral)
- flüchtig adj (elusive or difficult to retain)
- kurzlebig adj (transient, fleeting or ephemeral)
Greek
2 entries- φυγάς noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- φυγάς noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Hebrew
2 entries- מבוקש noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- עבריין נמלט noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Hindi
2 entries- भगोड़ा noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- भग्गू noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Hungarian
1 entries- szökevény noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Indonesian
1 entries- buronan noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Italian
2 entries- latitante adj (fleeing or running away)
- latitante noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Japanese
1 entries- 逃亡者 noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Kannada
1 entries- ತಲೆತಪ್ಪಿಸಿಕೊಂಡವನು noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Kazakh
2 entries- қашақ noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- қашқын noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Khmer
1 entries- រត់គេចខ្លួន noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Korean
1 entries- 도망자 noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- качкын noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Lao
1 entries- ອົບພະຍົບ noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Latin
2 entries- fugitīvus adj (fleeing or running away)
- fugitīvus noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Latvian
1 entries- bēglis noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Lithuanian
1 entries- pabėgėlis noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Macedonian
2 entries- бегалец noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- бегалка noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Malay
1 entries- pelarian noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Māori
3 entries- taurewa adj (fleeing or running away)
- rerenga noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- taurewa noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Nepali
1 entries- भागेको noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Norwegian
3 entries- diffus adj (transient, fleeting or ephemeral)
- diffus adj (elusive or difficult to retain)
- flyktig adj (fleeing or running away)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- rømling noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Old English
1 entries- flīema noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- قاچاق noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Pashto
1 entries- پراري noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Persian
2 entries- گریزان adj (fleeing or running away)
- فراری noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Polish
4 entries- ulotny adj (elusive or difficult to retain)
- uciekinier noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- uciekinierka noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- zbieg noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Portuguese
4 entries- efêmero adj (transient, fleeting or ephemeral)
- esquivo adj (elusive or difficult to retain)
- foragido adj (fleeing or running away)
- fugitivo adj (fleeing or running away)
Romanian
4 entries- fugar adj (fleeing or running away)
- fugitiv adj (fleeing or running away)
- trecător adj (fleeing or running away)
- evadat noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Russian
4 entries- бе́глый adj (fleeing or running away)
- мимолётный adj (transient, fleeting or ephemeral)
- преходя́щий adj (transient, fleeting or ephemeral)
- скороте́чный adj (transient, fleeting or ephemeral)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- fògarrach noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- begunica noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- begunka noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- begúnac noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- бегу́нац noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Sinhalese
1 entries- පලාගිය noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Slovak
3 entries- utečenec noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- utečenka noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- utečenkyňa noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Slovene
2 entries- ubežnica noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- ubežnik noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Southern Altai
1 entries- качкын noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Spanish
4 entries- forajido adj (fleeing or running away)
- fugaz adj (transient, fleeting or ephemeral)
- fugitivo adj (fleeing or running away)
- irado adj (fleeing or running away)
Swedish
1 entries- flykting noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Tagalog
1 entries- pugante noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Tajik
1 entries- фирорӣ noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Telugu
1 entries- పలాయితుడు noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Thai
1 entries- ผู้หลบหนี noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Turkish
4 entries- firari adj (fleeing or running away)
- gelip geçici adj (transient, fleeting or ephemeral)
- geçici adj (transient, fleeting or ephemeral)
- kalımsız adj (transient, fleeting or ephemeral)
Turkmen
1 entries- gaçgak noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Ukrainian
4 entries- втіка́ч noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- втіка́чка noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- утіка́ч noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- утіка́чка noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Urdu
1 entries- مفرور noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Uyghur
1 entries- قاچقۇن noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Uzbek
2 entries- qochoq noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
- qochqin noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Vietnamese
1 entries- người lánh nạn noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Welsh
1 entries- ffoadur noun (a person who is fleeing or escaping from something)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
The fugitive surfaced in a small town fifty miles from here but then disappeared again.
Source: tatoeba (601968)
The fugitive made a run for the border.
Source: tatoeba (638194)
The high court decided to try the fugitive warlord in abstentia.
Source: tatoeba (663030)
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