What is "fugacious" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does fugacious mean in English? Meaning of fugacious definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "fugacious" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "fugacious": lasting a very short time

Adjective

  • Meaning: lasting a very short time
  • Example: the ephemeral joys of childhood a passing fancy youth's transient beauty love is transitory but it is eternal fugacious blossoms
  • Synonyms: ephemeral fugacious passing short-lived transient transitory
  • Similar: impermanent temporary
  • Adjective: Fleeting, fading quickly, transient. 1906, O. Henry, "The Furnished Room", in The Four Million: Restless, shifting, fugacious as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population of the red brick district of the lower West Side. Homeless, they have a hundred homes. 1916, George Edmund De Schweinitz, Diseases of the Eye, page 589: Watering of the eye, conjunctival congestion, distinct catarrhal conjunctivitis, and deep-seated scleral congestions, sometimes fugacious, and often accompanied by intense headache […] 2011, Michael Feeney Callan, Robert Redford: The Biography, Alfred A. Knopf (2011), ISBN 9780307272973, page xvii: It may be that Redford's fugacious nature is not so mysterious, that it is studded in the artwork of the labs and the very stones of Sundance.1906, O. Henry, "The Furnished Room", in The Four Million: Restless, shifting, fugacious as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population of the red brick district of the lower West Side. Homeless, they have a hundred homes.1916, George Edmund De Schweinitz, Diseases of the Eye, page 589: Watering of the eye, conjunctival congestion, distinct catarrhal conjunctivitis, and deep-seated scleral congestions, sometimes fugacious, and often accompanied by intense headache […]2011, Michael Feeney Callan, Robert Redford: The Biography, Alfred A. Knopf (2011), ISBN 9780307272973, page xvii: It may be that Redford's fugacious nature is not so mysterious, that it is studded in the artwork of the labs and the very stones of Sundance.
  • Synonyms:

    brief, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, impermanent, momentary, passing, short-lived, temporal, temporary, transient,

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    fugacious in English: fugacious
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