'Ephemeral' definitions:
Definition of 'ephemeral'
From: WordNet
adjective
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]
noun
Anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form [syn: ephemeron, ephemeral]
Definition of 'Ephemeral'
From: GCIDE
- Ephemeral \E*phem"er*al\, a.
- 1. Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Short-lived; existing or continuing for a short time only. "Ephemeral popularity." --V. Knox. [1913 Webster]
- Sentences not of ephemeral, but of eternal, efficacy. --Sir J. Stephen. [1913 Webster]
- Ephemeral fly (Zo["o]l.), one of a group of neuropterous insects, belonging to the genus Ephemera and many allied genera, which live in the adult or winged state only for a short time. The larv[ae] are aquatic; -- called also {day fly} and May fly. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Ephemeral'
From: GCIDE
- Ephemeral \E*phem"er*al\, n. Anything lasting but a day, or a brief time; an ephemeral plant, insect, etc. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'ephemeral'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- brief,
- brittle,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- corruptible,
- deciduous,
- dying,
- episodic,
- evanescent,
- evergreen,
- fading,
- fickle,
- fleeting,
- flitting,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- fragile,
- frail,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- half-hardy,
- hardy,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconstant,
- insubstantial,
- momentary,
- mortal,
- mutable,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- passing,
- perennial,
- perishable,
- short,
- short-lived,
- subject to death,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unstable,
- volatile