fugacious

fugacious
    adj 1: lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of
           childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient
           beauty"; "love is transitory but it is eternal";
           "fugacious blossoms" [syn: {ephemeral}, {passing},
           {short-lived}, {transient}, {transitory}, {fugacious}]
    

Fugacious \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.
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            Much of its possessions is so hid, so fugacious, and
            of so uncertain purchase.             --Jer. Taylor.
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   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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39 Moby Thesaurus words for "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