fugacious
Pronunciations (2)
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/fjuːˈɡeɪ.ʃəs/
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fjuːˈɡeɪ.ʃəs
Adjective
Fleeting, fading quickly, transient.
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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.
Watering of the eye, conjunctival congestion, distinct catarrhal conjunctivitis, and deep-seated scleral congestions, sometimes fugacious, and often accompanied by intense headache […]
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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.
Adjective
lasting a very short time
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the ephemeral joys of childhood
a passing fancy
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youth's transient beauty
love is transitory but it is eternal
fugacious blossoms
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