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| Main Entry: | |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | transient/transitory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | temporary, brief |
| Synonyms: | changeable, deciduous, emigrating, ephemeral, evanescent, flash, fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fugacious, fugitive, going by, impermanent, insubstantial, migrating, momentary, moving, passing, provisional, short, short-lived, short-term, temporal, transmigratory, unstable, vacating, volatile |
| Antonyms: | enduring, incessant, lasting, long-lasting, neverending, permanent, persistent, undying |
| Main Entry: | volatile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | explosive, changeable |
| Synonyms: | airy, buoyant, capricious, effervescent, elastic, elusive, ephemeral, erratic, expansive, fickle, fleeting, flighty, flippant, frivolous, fugacious, fugitive, gaseous, gay, giddy, impermanent, imponderable, inconsistent, inconstant, light, lively, lubricious, mercurial, momentary, playful, resilient, short-lived, sprightly, subtle, temperamental, ticklish, transient, transitory, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, up-and-down, vaporous, variable, whimsical |
| Antonyms: | calm, firm, stable, steadfast |
| Main Entry: | transient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | temporary |
| Synonyms: | brief, changeable, deciduous, emigrating, ephemeral, evanescent, flash, fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fugacious, fugitive, going by, impermanent, insubstantial, migrating, momentary, moving, passing, provisional, short, short-lived, short-term, temporal, transitory, transmigratory, unstable, vacating, volatile |
| Notes: | transient means brief or fleeting and usually applies to people; transitory means the same thing but usually applies to events |
| Antonyms: | enduring, lasting, permanent |
| Main Entry: | transitory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | temporary |
| Synonyms: | impermanent, momentary, temporal, transient |
| Notes: | transient means brief or fleeting and usually applies to people; transitory means the same thing but usually applies to events |
| Antonyms: | permanent |
| Main Entry: | transitory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fleeting |
| Synonyms: | brief, ephemeral, evanescent, fly by night, fugacious, impermanent, passing, temporal, temporary, transient |
| Notes: | transient means brief or fleeting and usually applies to people; transitory means the same thing but usually applies to events |
| Antonyms: | lasting, permanent, perpetual |
| Main Entry: | fugacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | transitory |
| Synonyms: | brief, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, impermanent, momentary, passing, short-lived, temporal, temporary, transient |
| Main Entry: | migrational |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | migratory |
| Synonyms: | casual, changing, drifting, emigrating, errant, gypsy, immigrant, immigrating, impermanent, itinerant, migrant, migrative, migratorial, mobile, nomad, nomadic, on the move, passing over, passing through, peripatetic, ranging, roving, seasonal, shifting, temporary, tramp, transient, transmigratory, unsettled, vagabond, vagrant, wandering |
| Main Entry: | pro tem |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | temporary |
| Synonyms: | Band-Aid, 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 |
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