fugacious [fyoo-gey-shuhs]
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fugacious [fyoo-gey-shuhs]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: transitory
Synonyms: brief, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, impermanent, momentary, passing, short-lived, temporal, temporary, transient
Main Entry: ephemeral
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: momentary, passing
Synonyms: brief, episodic, evanescent, fleeting, flitting, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, short, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitory, unenduring, volatile
Antonyms: enduring, eternal, everlasting, interminable, lasting, long, permanent, perpetual
Main Entry: fleeting
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: brief, transient
Synonyms: cursory, ephemeral, evanescent, fading, flash in the pan, flitting, flying, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, meteoric, momentary, passing, short, short-lived, sudden, temporary, transitory, vanishing, volatile
Antonyms: constant, continual, endless, enduring, lasting, lengthy, long, long-lived, permanent, perpetual
Main Entry: fugitive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fleeing, transient
Synonyms: avoiding, brief, criminal, elusive, ephemeral, errant, erratic, escaping, evading, evanescent, fleeting, flitting, flying*, fugacious, hot*, impermanent, lamster, momentary, moving, on the lam, passing, planetary, running away, short*, short-lived, temporary, transitory, unstable, volatile, wandering, wanted
Antonyms: confronting, facing, permanent
Main Entry: momentary
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: brief, fleeting
Synonyms: cursory, dreamlike, ephemeral, evanescent, flashing, flitting, flying, fugacious, fugitive, gone in flash, hasty, impermanent, impulsive, in wink of an eye, instantaneous, like lightning, passing, quick, shifting, short, short-lived, spasmodic, summary, temporary, transient, transitory, vanishing, volatile
Antonyms: lasting, long-lasting, permanent, staying
Main Entry: mortal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: human
Synonyms: animate, bipedal, corporeal, creatural, earthly, ecce homo, ephemeral, evanescent, fading, finite, frail, fugacious, impermanent, momentary, passing, perishable, precarious, sublunary, temporal, transient, weak, worldly
Antonyms: animal, immortal, inhuman, plant
Main Entry: passing
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: brief, casual
Synonyms: cursory, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, fugacious, fugitive, glancing, hasty, impermanent, momentary, quick, shallow, short, short-lived, slight, superficial, temporary, transient, transitory
Antonyms: lasting, long-lasting, permanent
Main Entry: short-lived
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not around for long
Synonyms: brief, deciduous, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, fly-by-night, fugacious, fugitive, gone in a heartbeat, impermanent, momentary, of short duration, over in a heartbeat, passing, quick, short, short-haul, short-run, short-term, temporary, transient, transitory
Antonyms: enduring, ethereal, lasting, lengthy, long-lived, permanent
Main Entry: temporal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: momentary
Synonyms: chronological, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, of time, passing, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitory
Antonyms: endless, lasting, permanent, perpetual, persistent
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