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fugacious
Fugacious (adj) means lasting only a short time before disappearing.
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Lasting only a short time before disappearing.
"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."
— Michael Feeney Callan, Robert Redford: The Biography (2011)
"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."
— O. Henry pseudonym; William Sydney Porter, The Furnished Room (1906)
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fugācius (the source of -acious), the comparative of fugāciter (“evasively, fleetingly”), which came from fugāx (“transitory, fleeting”), from fugiō (“to flee”).
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What is the meaning of fugacious?
"fugacious" (adj) means lasting only a short time before disappearing.
What is another word for fugacious?
Other words for "fugacious" include transitory, transient, passing, ephemeral.
What is the opposite of fugacious?
The opposite of "fugacious" is eternal.
