fugacious - 17 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | fugacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | transitory |
| Synonyms: | brief, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, impermanent, momentary, passing, short-lived, temporal, temporary, transient |
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| 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: | 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: | 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: | momentary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brief, fleeting |
| Synonyms: | cursory, dreamlike, ephemeral, evanescent, flitting*, flying, fugitive, hasty, impermanent, impulsive, instantaneous, passing, quick, short, short-lived, spasmodic, summary, temporary, transient, transitory, vanishing, volatile, flashing, fugacious, gone in flash, in wink of an eye, like lightning, shifting |
| Antonyms: | lasting, long-lasting, permanent, staying |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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: | mortal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | human |
| Synonyms: | animate, corporeal, earthly, ephemeral, evanescent, fading, finite, frail, impermanent, momentary, passing, perishable, precarious, temporal, transient, weak, worldly, bipedal, creatural, ecce homo, fugacious, sublunary |
| Antonyms: | animal, immortal, inhuman, plant |
| Main Entry: | temporal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | momentary |
| Synonyms: | chronological, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, fugitive, impermanent, passing, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitory, fugacious, of time |
| Antonyms: | endless, lasting, permanent, perpetual, persistent |
| Main Entry: | transitory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective2 |
| Definition: | brief |
| Synonyms: | ephemeral, fleeting, passing, short, short-lived, fugacious |
| Antonyms: | lengthy, long-lived |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | continuance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
abiding, accrescent, chronic, consecutive, constant, continued, continuing, continuous, curtate, diuturnal, entire, evergreen, fugacious, gradual, immediate, in a line, inconvertible, intransient, intransitive, intransmutable, lasting, lifelong, linear, lingering, livelong, long-lived, long-pending, long-standing, long-winded, longeval, longevous, macrobian, macrobiotic, nisi, perdurable, perennial, permanent, perpetual, progressive, prolonged, protracted, serial, slow, spun out, successive, supernaculum, sustained, unbroken, undying, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unremitting, unreversed, unrevoked, unshifting, unstopped, unvaried, unvarying
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| 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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