What does "fugacious" mean?

Fleeting, fading quickly, transient.

What is a synonym for "fugacious"?

Common synonyms include: brittle, capricious, changeable, corruptible, deciduous, dying.

How do you pronounce "fugacious"?

Pronounced //fjuːˈɡeɪ.ʃəs//.

Fugacious

//fjuːˈɡeɪ.ʃəs// adj

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Definitions

Adjective

1
Fleeting, fading quickly, transient.
"Restless, shifting, fugacious as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population of the red brick district of the lower West Side. Homeless, they have a hundred homes."

Adjective

1
lasting a very short time wordnet

Synonyms

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brittle capricious changeable corruptible deciduous dying

Antonyms

All antonyms

eternal evanescent perpetuate

Example

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"Restless, shifting, fugacious as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population of the red brick district of the lower West Side. Homeless, they have a hundred homes."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fugācius, comparative of fugāciter (“evasively, fleetingly”), from fugāx (“transitory, fleeting”), from fugiō (“I flee”).

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