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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

fugacious
    adj 1: lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of
           childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient
           beauty"; "love is transitory but it is eternal";
           "fugacious blossoms" [syn: ephemeral, passing,
           short-lived, transient, transitory, fugacious]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Fugacious \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.
      [1913 Webster]

            Much of its possessions is so hid, so fugacious, and
            of so uncertain purchase.             --Jer. Taylor.
      [1913 Webster]

   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.
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for fugacious:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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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