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Fugacious   Listen
adjective
Fugacious  adj.  
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."
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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"Fugacious" Quotes from Famous Books



... fulfil an order. He turns a specked one over many times before he leaves it out. If I were to tell what is passing in my mind, I should say that every one was specked which he had handled; for he rubs off all the bloom, and those fugacious ethereal qualities leave it. Cool evenings prompt the farmers to make haste, and at length I see only the ladders here and there left ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 61, November, 1862 • Various


Words linked to "Fugacious" :   short-lived, impermanent, transient, passing, transitory, temporary, fugaciousness, ephemeral, fugacity


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