Fugacious
/fjuːˈɡeɪ.ʃəs/ adj
adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
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
Example
More examples"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”).