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| Main Entry: | fleeting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brief, transient |
| Synonyms: | cursory, ephemeral, evanescent, fading, flash in the pan*, flitting, flying, fugitive, impermanent, meteoric, momentary, passing, short, short-lived, sudden, temporary, transitory, vanishing, volatile, fugacious |
| Antonyms: | constant, continual, endless, enduring, lasting, lengthy, long, permanent, perpetual, long-lived |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | elusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | evasive, mysterious |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, baffling, cagey, deceitful, deceptive, equivocal, evanescent, fallacious, fleeting, fraudulent, fugitive, greasy, illusory, incomprehensible, insubstantial, intangible, misleading, occult, phantom, puzzling, shifty, shy, slippery, subtle, transient, transitory, tricky, volatile, difficult to catch, elusory, fugacious, imponderable, indefinable, stonewalling, unspecific |
| Notes: | elusive is used when what is being avoided is physical capture or apprehension, whereas evasive is used when what is being avoided is direct or relevant response to a verbal challenge illusory means based on or having the nature of an illusion; elusive means difficult to describe or skillful at eluding capture |
| Antonyms: | confronting, facing, inviting, attracting, encountering, enticing |
| Main Entry: | ephemeral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | momentary, passing |
| Synonyms: | brief, episodic, evanescent, fleeting, flitting, fugitive, impermanent, short, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitory, volatile, fugacious, unenduring |
| Antonyms: | enduring, eternal, everlasting, interminable, lasting, long, permanent, perpetual |
| Main Entry: | evanescent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | transient |
| Synonyms: | brief, fading, fleeting, momentary, passing, short-lived, temporary, tenuous, vanishing, disappearing |
| Main Entry: | fly-by-night |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unreliable and shady |
| Synonyms: | brief, cowboy*, disreputable, dubious, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, impermanent, irresponsible, momentary, passing, questionable, shady, shifty, short-lived, slimy*, slippery*, temporary, treacherous, undependable, unprofessional, unreliable, unsure, untrustworthy, here-today-gone-tomorrow, not to be relied upon, not to be trusted, trustless |
| Antonyms: | dependable, reliable, reputable, responsible, trustworthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fugitive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fleeing, transient |
| Synonyms: | brief, criminal, elusive, ephemeral, errant, erratic, evanescent, fleeting, flitting, flying*, hot*, impermanent, momentary, moving, passing, planetary, short*, short-lived, temporary, transitory, unstable, volatile, wandering, wanted, avoiding, escaping, evading, fugacious, lamster, on the lam, running away |
| Antonyms: | confronting, facing, permanent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hasty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | speedy; without much thought |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, agile, brash, breakneck*, brief, brisk, careless, cursory, eager, expeditious, fast, fiery, fleet, fleeting, foolhardy, headlong, heedless, hurried, ill-advised, impatient, impetuous, impulsive, incautious, inconsiderate, madcap*, on the double*, passing, perfunctory, precipitate, prompt, pronto*, quick, quickie, rapid, rash, reckless, rushed, short, slapdash*, snappy*, sudden, superficial, swift, thoughtless, urgent, PDQ, chop-chop*, harefooted, quickened, slambang |
| Antonyms: | delayed, lazy, slow, lingering, loitering |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | meteoric |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brief, sudden |
| Synonyms: | dazzling, ephemeral, fleeting, momentary, rapid, spectacular, speedy, swift, transient, flashing, overnight |
| Antonyms: | slow |
| Main Entry: | passing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brief, casual |
| Synonyms: | cursory, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, fugitive, hasty, impermanent, momentary, quick, shallow, short, short-lived, slight, superficial, temporary, transient, transitory, fugacious, glancing |
| Antonyms: | lasting, long-lasting, permanent |
| Main Entry: | short-lived |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not around for long |
| Synonyms: | brief, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, fly-by-night, fugitive, impermanent, momentary, passing, quick, short, temporary, transient, transitory, deciduous, fugacious, gone in a heartbeat, of short duration, over in a heartbeat, short-haul, short-run, short-term |
| Antonyms: | enduring, ethereal, lasting, lengthy, permanent, long-lived |
| Main Entry: | temporary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lasting only a short while |
| Synonyms: | acting, ad hoc, alternate, brief, changeable, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, fugitive, impermanent, interim, limited, makeshift*, momentary, mortal, passing, perishable, pro tempore, provisional, short, short-lived, slapdash*, stopgap*, substitute, summary, supply, transient, transitory, unstable, volatile, Band-Aid, ad interim, for the time being, fugacious, make-do, overnight, pro tem, provisory, shifting, temp, unfixed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | transient/transitory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | temporary, brief |
| Synonyms: | changeable, ephemeral, evanescent, flash, fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night*, flying, fugitive, impermanent, insubstantial, momentary, moving, passing, provisional, short, short-lived, temporal, unstable, volatile, deciduous, emigrating, fugacious, going by, migrating, short-term, transmigratory, vacating |
| Antonyms: | enduring, incessant, lasting, long-lasting, permanent, persistent, undying, neverending |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | volatile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | explosive, changeable |
| Synonyms: | airy, buoyant, capricious, effervescent, elastic, elusive, ephemeral, erratic, expansive, fickle, fleeting, flighty, flippant, frivolous, fugitive, gaseous, gay, giddy, impermanent, inconsistent, inconstant, light, lively, mercurial, momentary, playful, resilient, short-lived, sprightly, subtle, temperamental, ticklish, transient, transitory, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, up-and-down, vaporous, variable, whimsical, fugacious, imponderable, lubricious |
| Antonyms: | calm, firm, stable, steadfast |
| Main Entry: | flitting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | transitory |
| Synonyms: | ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, temporary |
| Main Entry: | transient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | temporary |
| Synonyms: | brief, changeable, ephemeral, evanescent, flash, fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fugitive, impermanent, insubstantial, momentary, moving, passing, provisional, short, short-lived, temporal, transitory, unstable, volatile, deciduous, emigrating, fugacious, going by, migrating, short-term, transmigratory, vacating |
| Antonyms: | enduring, lasting, permanent |
| Main Entry: | vanishing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disappearing |
| Synonyms: | fading, fleeting, going |
| Main Entry: | fast |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | speedy |
| Synonyms: | PDQ, accelerated, active, agile, blue streak, breakneck*, brisk, chop-chop*, dashing, double-time, electric, expeditious, expeditive, flashing, fleet, fleeting, flying, hairtrigger, hasty, hot, hurried, hypersonic, in a jiffy, in nothing flat, lickety split, like a bat out of hell, like all get out, like crazy, like mad, nimble, on the double*, posthaste, presto, pronto, quick, racing, rapid, ready, screamin', snap*, snappy*, speedball, supersonic, swift, velocious, winged |
| Antonyms: | plodding, slow, tardy, unhurried |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | little |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | small in size, amount |
| Synonyms: | babyish, bantam, brief, cramped, diminutive, dinky, elfin, embryonic, fleeting, hasty, immature, imperceptible, infant, infinitesimal, insufficient, junior, light, limited, meager, microscopic, miniature, minute, peanut*, petite, short, short-lived, skimpy, slight, snub, sparse, stubby, stunted, teeny, tiny, toy, undersized, undeveloped, wee, wizened, young, Lilliputian, hardly any, inappreciable, inconsiderable, mini, not big, not large, scant, shrimpy, shriveled, truncated |
| Antonyms: | big, enormous, giant, great, huge, immense, large, massive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | short |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abridged |
| Synonyms: | abbreviate, bare, brief, compendious, concise, condensed, cut short, epigrammatic, fleeting, laconic, little, momentary, pithy, pointed, precise, sententious, short and sweet*, short-lived, succinct, summary, terse, undersized, abbreviated, aphoristic, boiled down, breviloquent, compendiary, compressed, curtailed, curtate, cut to the bone, decreased, decurtate, diminished, in a nutshell, lessened, not protracted, short-term, shortened, summarized, unprolonged, unsustained |
| Antonyms: | large, lengthy, long, unabridged |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | brief |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | short in time |
| Synonyms: | concise, ephemeral, fast, fleeting, hasty, instantaneous, little, meteoric, momentary, passing, quick, short-lived, swift, temporary, transient, transitory, curtailed, short-term |
| Antonyms: | enduring, lasting, lengthy, long, long-lived |
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