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91fugitive — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. runaway, fleeing; transient, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting; transitory. n. runaway, eloper, absconder; refugee, escapee. See avoidance, escape, transientness. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. outlaw,… …
92mortal — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. human, ephemeral; fatal, deadly; dire; implacable. See humanity, transientness, killing. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Causing death] Syn. malignant, fatal, lethal; see deadly , poisonous . 2. [Subject …
93passing — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. cursory; fleeting. See transientness, disappearance. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [In the act of going past] Syn. departing, crossing, going by, gliding by, flashing by, speeding by, going in opposite… …
94short-lived — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. transitory, impermanent, mortal, perishable, ephemeral, fugitive, evanescent; doomed. See transientness.Ant., longlived, permanent. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. brief, momentary, temporary; see… …
95temporal — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. worldly, mundane, secular; civil, political, profane, unsacred; temporary, ephemeral, impermanent. See transientness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Transitory] Syn. temporary, transient, ephemeral; see …
96transientness — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Temporary duration Nouns 1. transientness, transience, evanescence, impermanence, fugacity, mortality, span; nine days wonder, bubble, ephemerality; short term; spurt; planned obsolescence; temporary… …
97transitory — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. See transientness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Fleeting] Syn. brief, ephemeral, short; see fleeting . 2. [Temporary] Syn. impermanent, transient, changeable; see temporary . See Synonym Study at… …
98evanescent — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. vanishing, transient, disappearing, passing, passing away, fading, shifting, fleeting, transitory, flitting, fugitive, ephemeral, short lived; see also temporary . See Synonym Study at transient . II (Roget s 3… …
99transient — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Temporary] Syn. provisional, ephemeral, transitory, momentary, evanescent, fleeting; see also temporary . 2. [In motion] Syn. migrating, emigrating, vacating; see moving 2 . Syn. transient applies to that which lasts or… …
100Triachyrium — Gk treis, three; achryon, chaff. Mature florets with three scales due to the lower glume being fugacious …
