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| Main Entry: |
transient/transitory
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| 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: | transient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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Adjectives: |
transient, ad interim, brief, brisk, cursory, deciduous, ephemeral, evanescent, extemporaneous, fleeting, flying, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, momentary, mortal, passing, perishable, picaresque, precarious, pressed for time, preterient, provisional, provisory, quick, shifting, short-lived, slippery, spasmodic, sudden, summary, temporal, temporary, transitive, transitory
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| Main Entry: | brief |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | short in time |
| Synonyms: | concise, curtailed, ephemeral, fast, fleeting, hasty, instantaneous, little, meteoric, momentary, passing, quick, short-lived, short-term, swift, temporary, transient, transitory |
| Antonyms: | enduring, lasting, lengthy, long, long-lived |
| Main Entry: | bum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beggar |
| Synonyms: | bindle, black sheep, derelict, drifter, floater, gutterpup, guttersnipe, hobo, stiff*, tramp, transient, vagabond, vagrant |
| Notes: | a hobo is a migratory worker who likes to travel, a tramp travels without working, and a bum does not travel or work |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | drifter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wanderer |
| Synonyms: | derelict, hobo, itinerant, nomad, rolling stone, tramp, transient, vagabond, vagrant |
| Main Entry: | elusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | evasive, mysterious |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, baffling, cagey, deceitful, deceptive, difficult to catch, elusory, equivocal, evanescent, fallacious, fleeting, fraudulent, fugacious, fugitive, greasy, illusory, imponderable, incomprehensible, indefinable, insubstantial, intangible, misleading, occult, phantom, puzzling, shifty, shy, slippery, stonewalling, subtle, transient, transitory, tricky, unspecific, volatile |
| Antonyms: | attracting, confronting, encountering, enticing, facing, inviting |
| 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: | fugitive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person escaping from law or other pursuer |
| Synonyms: | bolter, derelict, deserter, displaced person, dodger, escapee, escaper, evacuee, exile, fly-by-night, hermit, hunted person, outcast, outlaw, recluse, refugee, runagate, runaway, stray, transient, truant, vagabond, waif, walkout, émigré |
| Main Entry: | guest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person accommodated, given hospitality |
| Synonyms: | bedfellow, boarder, caller, client, companion, company, customer, ephemera, frequenter, habitué, inmate, lodger, mate, out-of-towner, partaker, patron, recipient, renter, roomer, sharer, sojourner, tenant, transient, vacationer, visitant, visitor |
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