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Band-Aid
adjective as in improvised
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in makeshift
Weak matches
adjective as in pro tem
Weak matches
- acting
- ad hoc
- ad interim
- alternate
- brief
- changeable
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- fleeting
- for the time being
- fugacious
- fugitive
- impermanent
- interim
- limited
- make-do
- makeshift
- momentary
- mortal
- overnight
- passing
- perishable
- pro tempore
- provisional
- provisory
- shifting
- short
- short-lived
- slapdash
- stopgap
- substitute
- summary
- supply
- temp
- transient
- transitory
- unfixed
- unstable
- volatile
adjective as in short-range
Strongest match
Weak matches
- acting
- ad hoc
- ad interim
- alternate
- brief
- changeable
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- fleeting
- for the time being
- fugacious
- fugitive
- impermanent
- interim
- limited
- make-do
- makeshift
- momentary
- mortal
- overnight
- passing
- perishable
- pro tem
- pro tempore
- provisional
- provisory
- shifting
- short
- short-lived
- short-term
- slapdash
- stopgap
- substitute
- summary
- supply
- temp
- transient
- transitory
- unfixed
- unstable
- volatile
adjective as in short-term
Weak matches
- acting
- ad hoc
- ad interim
- alternate
- brief
- changeable
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- fleeting
- for the time being
- fugacious
- fugitive
- impermanent
- make-do
- makeshift
- mortal
- overnight
- passing
- perishable
- pro tem
- pro tempore
- provisional
- provisory
- shifting
- short
- short-lived
- short-range
- slapdash
- stopgap
- substitute
- summary
- supply
- temp
- transient
- transitory
- unfixed
- unstable
- volatile
adjective as in stopgap
adjective as in temporary
Strong matches
noun as in answer
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in drop in the bucket
noun as in expediency/expedience
noun as in lick and a promise
noun as in patch
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in solution
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in stopgap
Example Sentences
Conditions will never be perfect, and we have reached the point of ripping off the proverbial Band-Aid.
Think of it as a frequent buyer program for personal karma, or a spiritual band-aid.
Unfortunately, the best response we can muster might be much harder than a band-aid or hidden camera.
Hell, even the band-aid of busing was enough to spark a huge backlash to civil rights laws.
“AbleNook is not just a short term or Band-Aid fix, but a solution that could become a home for multiple generations,” she says.
Or, we can pull off the Band-Aid attaching the two sides of banking.
He had torn open a Band-Aid and was trying to fasten it around his finger.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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