ADJECTIVE
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lasting a very short time
fugacious blossoms
the ephemeral joys of childhood
a passing fancy
youth's transient beauty
love is transitory but it is eternal
How To Use fugacious In A Sentence
- Rather it is hoped that the haecceity of this enchiridion of arcane and recondite sesquipedalian items will appeal to the oniomania of an eximious Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgefühl and orexis will find more than fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages. Languagehat.com
- Nikki and I had our heads blown away by the epiphanies triggered by Carl's thoughts - effects that will not be fugacious in the least, believe me. Notes from the peanut gallery
- There are no shortage of people who are saying that today's 3.5 percent GDP number is all because of U.S. government stimulus and it won't last -- this might be a fugacious recovery -- here today, gone tomorrow, very short-lived. CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2009
- Rather it is hoped that the haecceity of this enchiridion of arcane and recondite sesquipedalian items will appeal to the oniomania of an eximious Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgefühl and orexis will find more than fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages. Languagehat.com
- Not only will the bloom of crowded plants be comparatively poor and brief, but by early and bold thinning the plants will become so robust, and cover such large spaces of ground with their ample leafage and well-developed flowers, as really to astonish people who think they know all about annuals, and who may have ventured after much ill-treatment to designate them 'fugacious and weedy.' The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
- Restless, shifting, fugacious as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population of the red brick district of the lower West Side.
- Its flowers, however, are very fugacious, so much so that it is difficult to obtain good specimens, the mere gathering causing them to fall; hermaphrodite flowers, though carefully sought, were not seen.
- Additional, fugacious or parental breeding manner is abhorrent, educational way is simple, rough, the child forms clear dispute idea hard.
- In the fragile and fugacious extent of life, Li Ming has been trying to reach that eternity.
- They are very fugacious, and now and then apparently absent.