refugitive adjective 1noun 1forms 3 adjective1 •Pertaining to refuge.The settlements of a refugitive nature (2a) are hard to be determined. First of all they were conditioned by the occasional refugitive needs of the people and their property. — 1988 noun1 •A fugitive who seeks refuge in another state or country.She then continues with her own private reveries about being mistaken for African when she was in Canada and “them old slaves refugitives and them new African refugees” (34). — 2016 formsrefugitives · more refugitive · most refugitive