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fugitiveadjective hard to find, capture, or isolatethat fugitive trait called artistic creativity elusive, evasive, slippery cagey(also cagy), shiftyephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, impermanent, momentary, passing, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitoryinaccessible, inconvenient, unapproachable, unattainable, unavailable, unobtainable, unreachable, untouchable accessible, approachable, attainable, available, convenient, obtainable, reachable lasting only for a short timehad fugitive thoughts of leaving town after finishing high school but never acted on them brief, deciduous, ephemeral, evanescent, flash, fleeting, fugacious, impermanent, momentary, passing, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitory little, short, shortishacting, interim, provisional, short-term ceaseless, dateless, deathless, endless, enduring, eternal, everlasting, immortal, lasting, long-lived, permanent, perpetual, timeless, undying, unending lifelongcontinuing, durable, persistentimperishable, indefectible, indestructible traveling from place to placea small fugitive circus that traveled the countryside ambulant, ambulatory, errant, gallivanting(also galavanting), itinerant, nomad, nomadic, perambulatory, peregrine, peripatetic, ranging, roaming, roving, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, wayfaring drifting, footloose, meandering, ramblingsauntering, strolling, traipsing, walkingmigrant, migratory on the move immobile, nonmoving, settled, standing, static, stationarymotionless, still transient, transitory, ephemeral, momentary, fugitive, fleeting, evanescent mean lasting or staying only a short time.transient applies to what is actually short in its duration or stay.a hotel catering primarily to transient guests transitory applies to what is by its nature or essence bound to change, pass, or come to an end.fame in the movies is transitory ephemeral implies striking brevity of life or duration.many slang words are ephemeral momentary suggests coming and going quickly and therefore being merely a brief interruption of a more enduring state.my feelings of guilt were only momentary fugitive and fleeting imply passing so quickly as to make apprehending difficult.let a fugitive smile flit across his face fleeting moments of joy evanescent suggests a quick vanishing and an airy or fragile quality.the story has an evanescent touch of whimsy that is lost in translation in the 14th century |