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most transient

ADJECTIVE

temporary, brief

Synonyms

WEAK

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

WEAK

enduring incessant lasting long-lasting neverending permanent persistent undying

ADJECTIVE

temporary

Synonyms

STRONGEST

ephemeral fleeting short-term transitory

STRONG

brief flash fly-by-night flying fugitive passing short temporal volatile

WEAK

changeable deciduous emigrating evanescent flitting fugacious going by impermanent insubstantial migrating momentary moving provisional short-lived transmigratory unstable vacating

Antonyms

STRONGEST

enduring lasting lengthy long long-lived permanent perpetual

Example Sentences

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Since then, he has developed, in this most transient of audiences, a fan base.

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2014

Football is the most transient of all sports, and players will adjust.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2011

Vague children of the most transient of the arts, fleet shadows of running waters, though thrown down from the steadfast stars, were ye not happier than we who live in the Real?

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various

But while fiction is specifically the most transient of forms, generically it is the most permanent.

From Days Off And Other Digressions by Van Dyke, Henry

Self-pity, except as the most transient emotion, was well nigh impossible to her.

From Mrs. Thompson A Novel by Maxwell, W. B. (William Babington)