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Using relatively few words; concise
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- Using relatively few words; concise
- Short in time, duration, length, or extent.
- Of short duration or extent
Allowing one to pass a test, course of study, inspection, or examination; satisfactory:
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- Allowing one to pass a test, course of study, inspection, or examination; satisfactory:
- Of brief duration; transitory:
- Lasting only a short time; short-lived; fleeting; momentary
Not permanent; not lasting; fleeting; temporary
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- Not permanent; not lasting; fleeting; temporary
Of a passing nature; not enduring or permanent; temporary, fleeting, or ephemeral; transient
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- Of a passing nature; not enduring or permanent; temporary, fleeting, or ephemeral; transient
- Existing or lasting only a short time; short-lived or temporary:
Passing quickly or soon; fleeting; ephemeral
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- Passing quickly or soon; fleeting; ephemeral
- Staying only for a short time
Passing quickly; ephemeral:
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Lacking in breadth or scope:
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- Lacking in breadth or scope:
- Containing a large amount of shortening; flaky:
- Easily provoked; irascible:
Lasting only one day
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- Lasting only one day
- Lasting for a markedly brief time:
- Having a short lifespan or a short annual period of aboveground growth. Used especially of plants.
Tending to pass away or fade from sight like mist or smoke; ephemeral
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- Tending to pass away or fade from sight like mist or smoke; ephemeral
Difficult to comprehend or retain; elusive:
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- Difficult to comprehend or retain; elusive:
- Given to change or disappearance; perishable:
- Lasting only a short time; fleeting:
Changing easily from liquid to vapor at normal temperatures and pressures. Essential oils used in perfumes are highly volatile.
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- Changing easily from liquid to vapor at normal temperatures and pressures. Essential oils used in perfumes are highly volatile.
- Moving capriciously from one idea, interest, etc. to another; fickle
- Not lasting long; fleeting
Performed speedily and without ceremony:
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- Performed speedily and without ceremony:
- Presenting the substance in a condensed form; concise:
- That presents the substance or general idea in brief form; summarizing; concise; condensed
Likely to occur at any moment
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- Likely to occur at any moment
- Lasting for only a moment; passing; transitory
- Occurring or present at every moment:
(Botany) Withering or dropping off early.
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- (Botany) Withering or dropping off early.
- (Bot.) Falling soon after blooming, as some flowers
- Passing quickly away; fleeting; ephemeral
Serving as a stopgap:
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- Serving as a stopgap:
- Used as a stopgap
- Temporary; short-term.
That will do for a while as a substitute
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- That will do for a while as a substitute
- Made to work or suffice; improvised; substituted.
Being a substitute or substitutes
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- Being a substitute or substitutes
Happening as if in a single night; sudden:
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- Happening as if in a single night; sudden:
- Lasting for, extending over, or remaining during a night:
- For use over a single night or for a short journey:
For or during an interim; temporary; provisional
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- For or during an interim; temporary; provisional
- Belonging to, serving during, or taking place during an intermediate interval of time; temporary:
Not straight or even; not symmetrical; not uniform in shape, design, or proportion
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- Not straight or even; not symmetrical; not uniform in shape, design, or proportion
- (Grammar) Departing from the usual pattern of inflection, derivation, or word formation, as the present forms of the verb be or the plural noun children.
- Contrary to rule, accepted order, or general practice:
Varying in color or appearance when seen from different angles:
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- Varying in color or appearance when seen from different angles:
- Subject to sudden or frequent changes.
- That can change or be changed; likely or tending to change; variable; alterable; fickle
Wavering or fickle:
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- Wavering or fickle:
- (Physics) Decaying with relatively short lifetime. Used of subatomic particles.
- (Physics) Radioactive, especially with a short half-life.
That may perish; esp., liable to spoil or deteriorate, as some foods
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- That may perish; esp., liable to spoil or deteriorate, as some foods
- Subject to decay, spoilage, or destruction.
- Liable to perish, especially naturally subject to quick decomposition or decay.
Of or relating to any of the extremist factions of the Irish Republican Army established in 1970.
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- Of or relating to any of the extremist factions of the Irish Republican Army established in 1970.
- Having the nature of a temporary provision; arranged or established for the time being, pending permanent arrangement or establishment
That acts; functioning
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- That acts; functioning
- Temporarily assuming the duties or authority of another.
- Temporarily taking over the duties (of a specified position)
Living or lasting only a short time; ephemeral.
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- Living or lasting only a short time; ephemeral.
- Having or tending to have a short life span or existence
Of a human being considered as a being who must eventually die
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- Of a human being considered as a being who must eventually die
- Liable or subject to death; not immortal:
- Very long and tedious
permanent
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fixed
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eternal
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momentary
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Lasting for a markedly brief time:
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- Lasting for a markedly brief time:
- Lasting only one day
- Having a short lifespan or a short annual period of aboveground growth. Used especially of plants.
Tending to pass away or fade from sight like mist or smoke; ephemeral
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- Tending to pass away or fade from sight like mist or smoke; ephemeral
Fleeting; evanescent.
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- Fleeting; evanescent.
- Swift; rapid
- Moving swiftly and nimbly.
Passing quickly; ephemeral:
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(Botany) Withering or dropping off early.
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- (Botany) Withering or dropping off early.
- (Bot.) Falling soon after blooming, as some flowers
- Passing quickly away; fleeting; ephemeral
Lasting only a short time; fleeting:
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- Lasting only a short time; fleeting:
- Difficult to comprehend or retain; elusive:
- Given to change or disappearance; perishable:
Likely to occur at any moment
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- Likely to occur at any moment
- Occurring or present at every moment:
- Lasting for only a moment; passing; transitory
Allowing one to pass a test, course of study, inspection, or examination; satisfactory:
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- Allowing one to pass a test, course of study, inspection, or examination; satisfactory:
- Cursory or superficial; casual:
- Of brief duration; transitory:
Living or lasting only a short time; ephemeral.
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- Living or lasting only a short time; ephemeral.
- Having or tending to have a short life span or existence
Secular or lay; civil:
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- Secular or lay; civil:
- Relating to or near the bones that form the sides and part of the base of the skull.
- Of, relating to, or limited by time:
Passing quickly or soon; fleeting; ephemeral
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- Passing quickly or soon; fleeting; ephemeral
- Staying only for a short time
Existing or lasting only a short time; short-lived or temporary:
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- Existing or lasting only a short time; short-lived or temporary:
- Of a passing nature; not enduring or permanent; temporary, fleeting, or ephemeral; transient
Not permanent; not lasting; fleeting; temporary
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- Not permanent; not lasting; fleeting; temporary
Belonging to, serving during, or taking place during an intermediate interval of time; temporary:
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- Belonging to, serving during, or taking place during an intermediate interval of time; temporary:
- For or during an interim; temporary; provisional
Having the nature of a temporary provision; arranged or established for the time being, pending permanent arrangement or establishment
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- Having the nature of a temporary provision; arranged or established for the time being, pending permanent arrangement or establishment
- Of or relating to any of the extremist factions of the Irish Republican Army established in 1970.
Designating memory involving recent facts or events
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- Designating memory involving recent facts or events
- Of or pertaining to the near or immediate future.
- Acquired over a relatively brief time:
Temporarily assuming the duties or authority of another.
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- Temporarily assuming the duties or authority of another.
- Temporarily taking over the duties (of a specified position)
- That acts; functioning
Temporary
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- Temporary
- In the meantime; temporarily
- During or taking place during an intermediate interval of time; temporary:
Belonging to, serving during, or taking place during an intermediate interval of time; temporary:
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- Belonging to, serving during, or taking place during an intermediate interval of time; temporary:
- For or during an interim; temporary; provisional
Of or relating to any of the extremist factions of the Irish Republican Army established in 1970.
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- Of or relating to any of the extremist factions of the Irish Republican Army established in 1970.
- Having the nature of a temporary provision; arranged or established for the time being, pending permanent arrangement or establishment
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Synonym Study
- Acting is applied to one who temporarily takes over the powers of a regular official during the latter's absence a vice-president often serves as acting president
- Ad interim refers to an appointment for an intervening period, as between the death of an official and the election of a successor
- Provisional is specifically applied to a government (or to its officers) established for the time being in a country, a newly formed nation, etc. until a permanent government can be formed
- Temporary applies to a post held (or to the person holding such a post) for a limited time, subject to dismissal by those having the power of appointment a temporary mail carrier
Find another word for temporary. In this page you can discover 69 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for temporary, like: brief, passing, impermanent, transitory, transient, fleeting, short, ephemeral, evanescent, fugitive and volatile.
