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most transitory

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

momentary transient

WEAK

impermanent temporal

Antonyms

STRONGEST

lasting permanent

WEAK

lengthy long-lived perpetual

ADJECTIVE

brief

Synonyms

STRONGEST

ephemeral fleeting short-lived

WEAK

fugacious passing short

Antonyms

STRONGEST

enduring lasting lengthy long long-lived permanent perpetual

ADJECTIVE

fleeting

Synonyms

STRONGEST

ephemeral temporary transient

WEAK

brief evanescent fly by night fugacious impermanent passing temporal

Antonyms

STRONGEST

enduring lasting permanent

WEAK

lengthy long-lived perpetual

Example Sentences

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“Clarkston” hints that some of our most instructive relationships may be the most transitory.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2024

The NBA is amid perhaps its most transitory era, with shorter contracts and players more amenable than ever to franchise hopping.

From Washington Post • May 17, 2019

Their vision of paradise is vividly shown on the walls of the underground tombs�a world in which dancers, lute players, animals abound, and all that was most transitory in life could be relished for eternity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Love, the most transitory of all passions, is inevitably succeeded by friendship or indifference.

From Mary Wollstonecraft by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins

Humour of all human things is the most transitory and changing in its moods.

From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper