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adjective
- 1. tending to disappear; fleeting: literary "she was acutely conscious of her fugacious youth"
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Fugacious is often used to describe immaterial things like emotions, but not always. Botanists, for example, use it to describe plant parts that wither or fall off before the usual time. Things that are fugacious are fleeting, and etymologically they can also be said to be fleeing.
adjective. formal uk / fjuːˈɡeɪ.ʃəs / us / fjuːˈɡeɪ.ʃəs / Add to word list. quick to disappear; not lasting very long: love's fugacious radiance. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Temporary. be a nine days' wonder idiom. casually. eddy. ephemeral. fugitive. here today, gone tomorrow idiom. impermanence. impermanency. placeholder.
Fugacious definition: fleeting; transient. See examples of FUGACIOUS used in a sentence.
When you describe something that passes quickly, or that's ephemeral and fleeting, you can use the adjective fugacious. When you live in Maine, the summer seems fugacious, and after looking forward all year to your senior prom, you'll find the night so fugacious that it seems to last only an hour.
adjective. formal us / fjuːˈɡeɪ.ʃəs / uk / fjuːˈɡeɪ.ʃəs / Add to word list. quick to disappear; not lasting very long: love's fugacious radiance. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Temporary. be a nine days' wonder idiom. casually. eddy. ephemeral. fugitive. here today, gone tomorrow idiom. impermanence. impermanency. placeholder.
fugacious in British English. (fjuːˈɡeɪʃəs ) adjective. 1. passing quickly away; transitory; fleeting. 2. botany. lasting for only a short time. fugacious petals. Collins English Dictionary.
1. passing quickly away; transitory; fleeting. 2. (Botany) botany lasting for only a short time: fugacious petals. [C17: from Latin fugax inclined to flee, swift, from fugere to flee; see fugitive] fuˈgaciously adv. fuˈgaciousness n.
Passing quickly away; fleeting; ephemeral. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Falling soon after blooming, as some flowers. Webster's New World. Withering or dropping off early. American Heritage. Synonyms: temporary. temporal. momentary. fugitive. transitory. transient. short-lived. passing. fleeting. evanescent. ephemeral.
Jun 2, 2024 · fugacious (comparative more fugacious, superlative most fugacious) Fleeting, fading quickly, transient.
tending to disappear; fleeting:. Meaning, pronunciation and example sentences, English to English reference content.
