'Transitory' definitions:
Definition of 'transitory'
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 'Transitory'
From: GCIDE
- Transitory \Tran"si*to*ry\, a. [L. transitorius: cf. F. transitoire. See Transient.] Continuing only for a short time; not enduring; fleeting; evanescent. [1913 Webster]
- Comfort and succor all those who, in this transitory life, are in trouble. --Bk. of Com. Prayer. [1913 Webster]
- It was not the transitory light of a comet, which shines and glows for a wile, and then . . . vanishes into nothing. --South. [1913 Webster]
- Transitory action (Law), an action which may be brought in any county, as actions for debt, and the like; -- opposed to local action. --Blackstone. Bouvier. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: transient; short-lived; brief. See Transient. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'transitory'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- able to adapt,
- adaptable,
- adjustable,
- alterable,
- alterative,
- brief,
- brittle,
- capricious,
- changeable,
- checkered,
- circumforaneous,
- corruptible,
- deciduous,
- discursive,
- divagatory,
- drifting,
- dying,
- ephemeral,
- errant,
- evanescent,
- ever-changing,
- fading,
- fickle,
- fleeting,
- flexible,
- flitting,
- floating,
- fluid,
- fly-by-night,
- flying,
- footloose,
- footloose and fancy-free,
- fragile,
- frail,
- fugacious,
- fugitive,
- gadding,
- gypsy-like,
- gypsyish,
- impermanent,
- impetuous,
- impulsive,
- inconstant,
- insubstantial,
- kaleidoscopic,
- landloping,
- malleable,
- many-sided,
- meandering,
- metamorphic,
- migrational,
- migratory,
- mobile,
- modifiable,
- momentary,
- mortal,
- movable,
- mutable,
- nomad,
- nomadic,
- nondurable,
- nonpermanent,
- nonuniform,
- passing,
- perishable,
- permutable,
- plastic,
- protean,
- proteiform,
- rambling,
- ranging,
- resilient,
- roaming,
- roving,
- rubbery,
- shifting,
- short-lived,
- short-term,
- straggling,
- straying,
- strolling,
- supple,
- temporal,
- temporary,
- traipsing,
- transient,
- transitive,
- transmigratory,
- transubstantiate,
- undurable,
- unenduring,
- unstable,
- vagabond,
- vagrant,
- variable,
- volatile,
- wandering