different between fugitive vs pariah

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

Etymology

From Tamil ?????? (pa?aiyar), from ?????? (pa?aiya?, “drummer”), from ??? (pa?ai, “drum”) or from Malayalam ???? (pa?ayar), from ???? (pa?ayan, “drummer”), from ?? (pa?a, “drum”). Parai in Tamil or Para in Malayalam refers to a type of large drum designed to announce the king’s notices to the public. The people who made a living using the parai were called paraiyar; in the caste-based society they were in the lower strata, hence the derisive paraiah and pariah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???a??/
• Rhymes: -a??

Noun

pariah (plural pariahs)

1. A person who is rejected from society or home; an outcast.
2. A demographic group, species, or community that is generally despised.
3. Someone in exile.
4. A member of one of the oppressed social castes in India.

Quotations

• 2014: Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Executive Presence, Prologue

  I didn’t even need to finish the article to understand the damage it would do—which was swift and devastating. In a matter of weeks, Creating a Life was DOA—and, figuratively speaking, so was I. I went from being a much-feted author to a pariah, since one of the many problems of being trashed on the front page of the New York Times is that everyone is in the know.

• 1985 — Robert Holmes, The Two Doctors, p 14

  ‘I’m a pariah, outlawed from Time Lord society.’

• 1842 — William Makepeace Thackeray, The Fitz-Boodle Papers (Fitz-Boodle's Confessions, preface [1])

  What is this smoking that it should be considered a crime? I believe in my heart that women are jealous of it, as of a rival. They speak of it as of some secret, awful vice that seizes upon a man, and makes him a pariah from genteel society.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:outcast

Derived terms

• pariah dog
• pariah kite

Translations

Anagrams

• Pahari, Pirahã, raphia