1. (a.) Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor.

2. (a.) Not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away; volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; -- applied to material and immaterial things; as, fugitive colors; a fugitive idea.

3. (n.) One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice.

4. (n.) Something hard to be caught or detained.

DP Judas absconder at large betrayer bolter brief brittle capricious changeable circumforaneous convict corruptible criminal crook deceiver deciduous deserter desperado desperate criminal disappearing discursive disengaged displaced person dissolving divagatory double-dealer drifting dying eloper emigre ephemeral errant escape artist escaped escapee escaper escapist evacuee evanescent evaporating fading felon fickle fled fleeing fleer fleeting flitting floating flown fly-by-night flying footloose footloose and fancy-free fragile frail free fugacious gadding gallows bird gangster gaolbird gypsy-like gypsyish hot impermanent impetuous impulsive in flight inconstant insubstantial jailbird landloping lawbreaker loose meandering melting migrational migratory mobster momentary mortal mutable nomad nomadic nondurable nonpermanent on the lam on the loose out of outlaw passing perishable public enemy quisling racketeer rambling ranging refugee roaming roving runagate runaway running away scofflaw scot-free shifting short-lived skedaddler stateless person straggling straying strolling swindler temporal temporary thief thug traipsing traitor transient transitive transitory transmigratory two-timer undurable unenduring unstable vagabond vagrant vanishing volatile wandering well out of