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brief
Using relatively few words; concise
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  1. Using relatively few words; concise
  2. Short in time, duration, length, or extent.
  3. Short in length
ephemeral
Lasting only one day
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  1. Lasting only one day
  2. Lasting for a markedly brief time:
  3. Having a short lifespan or a short annual period of aboveground growth. Used especially of plants.
short
Containing a large amount of shortening; flaky:
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  1. Containing a large amount of shortening; flaky:
  2. Lasting a brief time:
  3. (--- popularly) Not diphthongized [the short a in “pan”]
impermanent
Not permanent; not lasting; fleeting; temporary
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  1. Not permanent; not lasting; fleeting; temporary
transient
Passing quickly or soon; fleeting; ephemeral
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  1. Passing quickly or soon; fleeting; ephemeral
  2. Staying only for a short time
changeable
That can change or be changed; likely or tending to change; variable; alterable; fickle
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  1. That can change or be changed; likely or tending to change; variable; alterable; fickle
  2. Subject to sudden or frequent changes.
  3. Liable to change; capricious:
ephemeral
Lasting for a markedly brief time:
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  1. Lasting for a markedly brief time:
  2. Lasting only one day
  3. Having a short lifespan or a short annual period of aboveground growth. Used especially of plants.
evanescent
Tending to pass away or fade from sight like mist or smoke; ephemeral
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  1. Tending to pass away or fade from sight like mist or smoke; ephemeral
fleet
Fleeting; evanescent.
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  1. Fleeting; evanescent.
  2. Swift; rapid
  3. Moving swiftly and nimbly.
fleeting
Passing quickly; ephemeral:
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  1. Passing quickly; ephemeral:
  2. Passing quickly.
  3. Passing swiftly; not lasting
fugacious
(Botany) Withering or dropping off early.
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  1. (Botany) Withering or dropping off early.
  2. (Bot.) Falling soon after blooming, as some flowers
  3. Passing quickly away; fleeting; ephemeral
fugitive
Lasting only a short time; fleeting:
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  1. Lasting only a short time; fleeting:
  2. Difficult to comprehend or retain; elusive:
  3. Given to change or disappearance; perishable:
momentary
Likely to occur at any moment
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  1. Likely to occur at any moment
  2. Occurring or present at every moment:
  3. Lasting for only a moment; passing; transitory
passing
Allowing one to pass a test, course of study, inspection, or examination; satisfactory:
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  1. Allowing one to pass a test, course of study, inspection, or examination; satisfactory:
  2. Cursory or superficial; casual:
  3. Of brief duration; transitory:
short-lived
Living or lasting only a short time; ephemeral.
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  1. Living or lasting only a short time; ephemeral.
  2. Having or tending to have a short life span or existence
temporal
Of or near the temple or temples (of the head)
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  1. Of or near the temple or temples (of the head)
  2. Relating to or near the bones that form the sides and part of the base of the skull.
  3. Of, relating to, or limited by time:
temporary
Something that will last for only a limited period of time; transitory. Temporary is meaningless with regard to the duration of the length of time that it will last; however, it is used to designate absence of permanence. Something that will last for only a limited period of time; transitory. Temporary is meaningless with regard to the duration of the length of time that it will last; however, it is used to designate absence of permanence.
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  1. Something that will last for only a limited period of time; transitory. Temporary is meaningless with regard to the duration of the length of time that it will last; however, it is used to designate absence of permanence. Something that will last for only a limited period of time; transitory. Temporary is meaningless with regard to the duration of the length of time that it will last; however, it is used to designate absence of permanence.
transient
Passing quickly or soon; fleeting; ephemeral
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  1. Passing quickly or soon; fleeting; ephemeral
  2. Passing away with time; not permanent; temporary; transitory
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  • All things transitory But as symbols are sent.

  • The distinction of force and matter is then something transitory and relative.

  • Thus it came about not only that classifications of disease based on superficial likeness - such as jaundice, dropsy, inflammation - were broken up, and their parts redistributed, but also that even more set diseases began to lose their settlements, and were recognized as terms of series, as transitory or culminating phases of perturbations which might be traced to their origins, and in their earlier stages perhaps withstood.

  • The Solutrian work exhibits a transitory stage of art between the flint implements of the Mousterian and the bone implements of the Madelenian epochs.

  • Though apocalyptic served its purpose in the opening centuries of the Christian era, it must be confessed that in many of its aspects its office is transitory, as they belong not to the essence of Christian thought.

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