different between fugitive vs outcast

English

Etymology

From Middle English fugitive, fugityve, fugityf, fugitife, fugytif, fugitif, from Latin fugit?vus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fju?d???t?v/
• Hyphenation: fu?gi?tive

Noun

fugitive (plural fugitives)

1. A person who flees or escapes and travels secretly from place to place, and sometimes using disguises and aliases to conceal his/her identity, as to avoid law authorities in order to avoid an arrest or prosecution; or to avoid some other unwanted situation.

   • “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—!”

Synonyms

• abscotchalater (archaic)
• nomad
• wanderer
• runaway

Translations

Adjective

fugitive (comparative more fugitive, superlative most fugitive)

1. Fleeing or running away; escaping.
2. Transient, fleeting or ephemeral.
3. Elusive or difficult to retain.

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fy.?i.tiv/
• Rhymes: -iv
• Homophone: fugitives

Noun

fugitive f (plural fugitives, masculine fugitif)

1. female equivalent of fugitif; a female fugitive

Further reading

• “fugitive” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Adjective

fugit?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of fugit?vus

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?a?tk??st/ (noun, adjective); /a?t?k??st/ (verb)
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?a?tkæst/ (noun, adjective); /a?t?kæst/ (verb)
• Homophone: outcaste

Etymology 1

From Middle English outcasten, equivalent to out- +? cast.

Verb

outcast (third-person singular simple present outcasts, present participle outcasting, simple past and past participle outcast)

1. To cast out; to banish. [from 14th c.]

Adjective

outcast (comparative more outcast, superlative most outcast)

1. That has been cast out; banished, ostracized. [from 14th c.]

Etymology 2

From Middle English outcaste, outecaste, equivalent to out- +? cast.

Noun

outcast (plural outcasts)

1. One that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah. [from 14th c.]

   Synonyms: outsider, vagrant, exile, beggar

2. (more generally) Someone who does not belong; a misfit.
3. (Scotland) A quarrel.
4. The amount of increase in bulk of grain in malting.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:outcast

Translations

Anagrams

• acts out, cast out, outacts