'Fugacious' definitions:
Definition of 'fugacious'
(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]
Definition of 'Fugacious'
From: GCIDE
- Fugacious \Fu*ga"cious\, a. [L. fugax, fugacis, from fugere: cf. F. fugace. See Fugitive.]
- 1. Flying, or disposed to fly; fleeing away; lasting but a short time; volatile. [1913 Webster]
- Much of its possessions is so hid, so fugacious, and of so uncertain purchase. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Biol.) Fleeting; lasting but a short time; -- applied particularly to organs or parts which are short-lived as compared with the life of the individual. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fugacious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- brittle,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- corruptible,
- deciduous,
- dying,
- ephemeral,
- evanescent,
- fading,
- fickle,
- fleeting,
- flitting,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- fragile,
- frail,
- fugitive,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconstant,
- insubstantial,
- momentary,
- mortal,
- mutable,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- passing,
- perishable,
- short-lived,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transitory,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unstable,
- volatile