Meaning of FUGACIOUS
| Pronunciation: | | fyoo'geyshus
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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: | | ephemeral, impermanent, passing, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitory |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
Much of its possessions is so hid, so fugacious, and
of so uncertain purchase. --Jer. Taylor.
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.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Falling or withering away very early. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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