About The Word Fugacious
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Fugacious
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What's The Definition Of Fugacious?
[adj] 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"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Fugacious: ephemeral | impermanent | passing | short-lived | temporary | transient | transitory Related Terms | Find terms related to Fugacious: 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 See Also | Fugacious In Webster's Dictionary \Fu*ga"cious\, a. [L. fugax, fugacis, from fugere: cf.
F. fugace. See {Fugitive}.]
1. Flying, or disposed to fly; fleeing away; lasting but a
short time; volatile.
Much of its possessions is so hid, so fugacious, and
of so uncertain purchase. --Jer. Taylor.
2. (Biol.) Fleeting; lasting but a short time; -- applied
particularly to organs or parts which are short-lived as
compared with the life of the individual.
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