Word Meanings - FUGACIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Fleeting; lasting but a short time; -- applied particularly to organs or parts which are short-lived as compared with the life of the individual. (more info) 1. Flying, or disposed to fly; fleeing away; lasting but a short time; volatile. Much

Additional info about word: FUGACIOUS

Fleeting; lasting but a short time; -- applied particularly to organs or parts which are short-lived as compared with the life of the individual. (more info) 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FUGACIOUS)

• Ephemeral
• Transient
• evanescent
• fleeting
• fugacious
• fugitive
• momentary

Related words: (words related to FUGACIOUS)

• FUGITIVELY
  In a fugitive manner.
• FLEET-FOOT
  Swift of foot. Shak.
• FLEETINGLY
  In a fleeting manner; swiftly.
• FLEETING
  Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments. Syn. -- Evanescent; ephemeral. See Transient.
• FLEET
  To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; - - said of a cable or hawser. (more info) vlieten to flow, OS. fliotan, OHG. fliozzan, G. fliessen, Icel. fljota to float, flow, Sw. flyta, D. flyde, L. pluere to rain, Gr. plu to swim,
• FUGACIOUSNESS
  Fugacity.
• FLEETEN
  Fleeted or skimmed milk. Fleeten face, a face of the color of fleeten, i. e., blanched; hence, a coward. "You know where you are, you fleeten face." Beau. & Fl.
• TRANSIENT
  1. Passing before the sight or perception, or, as it were, moving over or across a space or scene viewed, and then disappearing; hence, of short duration; not permanent; not lasting or durable; not stationary; passing; fleeting; brief; transitory;
• FUGACIOUS
  Fleeting; lasting but a short time; -- applied particularly to organs or parts which are short-lived as compared with the life of the individual. (more info) 1. Flying, or disposed to fly; fleeing away; lasting but a short time; volatile. Much
• FLEETNESS
  Swiftness; rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; as, the fleetness of a horse or of time.
• FUGITIVENESS
  The quality or condition of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility; fugacity; instability.
• EPHEMERAL
  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,
• MOMENTARY
  Done in a moment; continuing only a moment; lasting a very short time; as, a momentary pang. This momentary joy breeds months of pain. Shak.
• EVANESCENTLY
  ; imperceptibly. Chalmers.
• FLEETINGS
  A mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey; curds. Wright.
• FLEETLY
  In a fleet manner; rapidly.
• EVANESCENT
  1. Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; vanishing; fleeting; as, evanescent joys. So evanescent are the fashions of the world in these particulars. Hawthorne. 2. Vanishing from notice; imperceptible. The difference between right and wrong,
• FUGITIVE
  1. Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor. The fugitive Parthians follow. Shak. Can a fugitive daughter enjoy herself while her parents are in
• INTRANSIENT
  Not transient; remaining; permanent. Killingbeck.
• PERTRANSIENT
  Passing through or over.
• TRANSFUGE; TRANSFUGITIVE
  One who flees from one side to another; hence, a deserter; a turncoat; an apostate.