Meaning of EPHEMERAL
| Pronunciation: | | i'femurul
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| | Definition: | | [adj] enduring a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but at is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms" |
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| | Synonyms: | | fugacious, impermanent, passing, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitory |
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| | Definition: | | Ephemeral
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
2. Short-lived; existing or continuing for a short time only.
``Ephemeral popularity.'' --V. Knox.
Sentences not of ephemeral, but of eternal,
efficacy. --Sir J.
Stephen.
{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}.
\E*phem"er*al\, n.
Anything lasting but a day, or a brief time; an ephemeral
plant, insect, etc.
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| | Definition: | | Short-lived. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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