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short lived
adjective as in little
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Strong matches
adjective as in momentary
adjective as in passing
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adjective as in perishable
adjective as in short
Strong matches
adjective as in short-lived
adjective as in swift
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adjective as in temporal
Strongest match
adjective as in temporary
Strong matches
adjective as in transient/transitory
adjective as in volatile
adjective as in transient
Strongest matches
adjective as in brief
Weak matches
adjective as in transitory
adjective as in ad interim
adjective as in fugacious
adjective as in pro tem
Weak matches
- acting
- ad hoc
- ad interim
- alternate
- Band-Aid
- 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
adjective as in short-range
Strongest match
Weak matches
- acting
- ad hoc
- ad interim
- alternate
- Band-Aid
- brief
- changeable
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- fleeting
- for the time being
- fugacious
- fugitive
- impermanent
- interim
- limited
- make-do
- makeshift
- momentary
- mortal
- overnight
- passing
- perishable
- pro tem
- pro tempore
- provisional
- provisory
- shifting
- short
- short-lived
- short-term
- slapdash
- stopgap
- substitute
- summary
- supply
- temp
- transient
- transitory
- unfixed
- unstable
- volatile
adjective as in short-term
Weak matches
- acting
- ad hoc
- ad interim
- alternate
- Band-Aid
- brief
- changeable
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- fleeting
- for the time being
- fugacious
- fugitive
- impermanent
- make-do
- makeshift
- mortal
- overnight
- passing
- perishable
- pro tem
- pro tempore
- provisional
- provisory
- shifting
- short
- short-lived
- short-range
- slapdash
- stopgap
- substitute
- summary
- supply
- temp
- transient
- transitory
- unfixed
- unstable
- volatile
adjective as in smallish
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Weak matches
- babyish
- bantam
- brief
- dinky
- elfin
- embryonic
- fleeting
- hardly any
- hasty
- immature
- imperceptible
- inappreciable
- inconsiderable
- infant
- infinitesimal
- insufficient
- junior
- light
- Lilliputian
- limited
- meager
- microscopic
- mini
- miniature
- minute
- not big
- not large
- peanut
- petite
- scant
- short
- short-lived
- shrimpy
- shriveled
- skimpy
- slight
- small
- snub
- sparse
- stubby
- stunted
- teeny
- tiny
- toy
- truncated
- undeveloped
- wee
- wizened
- young
adjective as in ephemeral
Strongest matches
adjective as in evanescent
adjective as in fleeting
Strongest matches
adjective as in fly-by-night
adjective as in fugitive
adjective as in not around for long
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Example Sentences
But the dream of a new dawn was short lived—at least a democratic one.
But assuming things were ever that hopeful, heaven was short-lived, and trouble followed.
I sang for a second in a rock cover band in college, but that was pretty short-lived.
I watched Tarzan movies and the short-lived Tarzan TV series.
Without the community, the ultimate destiny of any preservation project, no matter how ambitious, will be short-lived.
But the rumble of distant guns told the destroyer that his short-lived hour of triumph was nearly sped.
In 1826 Desroches made a short-lived attempt to marry Malvina d'Aldrigger.
During this period of the Renaissance, as Hadria afterwards called the short-lived epoch, little Martha was visited frequently.
The Bostonians met with a cold reception, and the short-lived pleasure was condemned as a nuisance.
"But I——" It was the courage of desperation—short-lived, alas!
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On this page you'll find 833 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to short lived, such as: insufficient, limited, meager, scant, slight, and bantam.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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