transitory

transitory
    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}]
    

Transitory \Tran"si*to*ry\, a. [L. transitorius: cf. F.
   transitoire. See {Transient}.]
   Continuing only for a short time; not enduring; fleeting;
   evanescent.
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         Comfort and succor all those who, in this transitory
         life, are in trouble.                    --Bk. of Com.
                                                  Prayer.
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         It was not the transitory light of a comet, which
         shines and glows for a wile, and then . . . vanishes
         into nothing.                            --South.
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   {Transitory action} (Law), an action which may be brought in
      any county, as actions for debt, and the like; -- opposed
      to local action. --Blackstone. Bouvier.
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   Syn: transient; short-lived; brief. See {Transient}.
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TRANSITORY. That which lasts but a short time, as transitory facts that 
which may be laid in different places, as a transitory action. 
    

97 Moby Thesaurus words for "transitory":
      able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, alterable, alterative, brief,
      brittle, capricious, changeable, checkered, circumforaneous,
      corruptible, deciduous, discursive, divagatory, drifting, dying,
      ephemeral, errant, evanescent, ever-changing, fading, fickle,
      fleeting, flexible, flitting, floating, fluid, fly-by-night,
      flying, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, fragile, frail,
      fugacious, fugitive, gadding, gypsy-like, gypsyish, impermanent,
      impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, insubstantial, kaleidoscopic,
      landloping, malleable, many-sided, meandering, metamorphic,
      migrational, migratory, mobile, modifiable, momentary, mortal,
      movable, mutable, nomad, nomadic, nondurable, nonpermanent,
      nonuniform, passing, perishable, permutable, plastic, protean,
      proteiform, rambling, ranging, resilient, roaming, roving, rubbery,
      shifting, short-lived, short-term, straggling, straying, strolling,
      supple, temporal, temporary, traipsing, transient, transitive,
      transmigratory, transubstantiate, undurable, unenduring, unstable,
      vagabond, vagrant, variable, volatile, wandering