fugacious
adj.
shedding early, wilting early (Botany); temporary, passing, fleeting
fugacious
Adjective
1. enduring a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but at is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms"
(synonym) ephemeral, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory
(similar) impermanent, temporary
Fugacious
(a.)
Flying, or disposed to fly; fleeing away; lasting but a short time; volatile.
(a.)
Fleeting; lasting but a short time; -- applied particularly to organs or parts which are short-lived as compared with the life of the individual.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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fugacious
Synonyms and related words:
brittle, capricious, changeable, corruptible, deciduous, dying, ephemeral, evanescent, fading, fickle, fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, fugitive, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, insubstantial, momentary, mortal, mutable, nondurable, nonpermanent, passing, perishable, short-lived, temporal, temporary, transient, transitive, transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable, volatile
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Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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