| Main Entry: | short-term |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | temporary |
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Band-Aid, acting, ad hoc, ad interim, alternate, brief, changeable, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, for the time being, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, interim, limited, make-do, makeshift, momentary, mortal, overnight, passing, perishable, pro tem, pro tempore, provisional, provisory, shifting, short, short-lived, short-range, slapdash, stopgap, substitute, summary, supply, temp, transient, transitory, unfixed, unstable, volatile |
| 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 |
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enduring, lasting, lengthy, long, long-lived |
| Main Entry: | short |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abridged |
Synonyms: |
abbreviate, abbreviated, aphoristic, bare, boiled down, breviloquent, brief, compendiary, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, curtailed, curtate, cut short, cut to the bone, decreased, decurtate, diminished, epigrammatic, fleeting, in a nutshell, laconic, lessened, little, momentary, not protracted, pithy, pointed, precise, sententious, short and sweet, short-lived, short-term, shortened, succinct, summarized, summary, terse, undersized, unprolonged, unsustained |
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large, lengthy, long, unabridged |
| Main Entry: | short-lived |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not around for long |
Synonyms: |
brief, deciduous, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, fly-by-night, fugacious, fugitive, gone in a heartbeat, impermanent, momentary, of short duration, over in a heartbeat, passing, quick, short, short-haul, short-run, short-term, temporary, transient, transitory |
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enduring, ethereal, lasting, lengthy, long-lived, permanent |
| Main Entry: | transient/transitory |
| 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 |
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enduring, incessant, lasting, long-lasting, neverending, permanent, persistent, undying |
| Main Entry: | transient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | temporary |
Synonyms: |
brief, 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, transitory, transmigratory, unstable, vacating, volatile |
| Notes: | transient means brief or fleeting and usually applies to people; transitory means the same thing but usually applies to events |
Antonyms: |
enduring, lasting, permanent |
| Main Entry: | short-range |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | temporary |
Synonyms: |
Band-Aid, acting, ad hoc, ad interim, alternate, brief, changeable, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, for the time being, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, interim, limited, make-do, makeshift, momentary, mortal, overnight, passing, perishable, pro tem, pro tempore, provisional, provisory, shifting, short, short-lived, short-term, slapdash, stopgap, substitute, summary, supply, tactical, temp, transient, transitory, unfixed, unstable, volatile |
| Main Entry: | short |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, adverb |
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Adjectives: |
little, short, brachyskelic, brief, commatic, compact, compendious, concise, curt, curtailed of its fair proportion, dumpy, fubsy, improcerous, oblate, pug, runtish, scrimp, shorn, short by, short-waisted, spuddy, squab, squabbish, squabby, squat, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, summary, thickset, undersized
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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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