fugacious

Main Entry:
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
Notes: momentary means fleeting, brief; momentous means significant and having great consequence
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
Notes: the word temporal derives from Latin and chronological is from Greek; temporal is 'having to do with time as opposed to eternity, having to do with earthly life as opposed to heavenly existence, having to do with time as opposed to space' - while chronological is 'arranged according to temporal order'
Antonyms: endless, lasting, permanent, perpetual, persistent
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