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.
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Fugacious
//fjuːˈɡeɪ.ʃəs//
Synonyms for "fugacious" (46 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (13)
Related words (23)
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Synonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesderived
2 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
26 translations across 13 languages.
Armenian
3 entries- անցողիկ adj (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient)
- կարճատեւ adj (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient)
- վաղանցիկ adj (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient)
Bulgarian
2 entries- краткотраен adj (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient)
- мимолетен adj (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 易逃逸的 adj (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient)
- 無常的 /无常的 adj (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient)
- 難捕捉的 /难捕捉的 adj (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient)
Dutch
2 entries- vlietend adj (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient)
- vluchtig adj (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient)
Finnish
1 entries- katoavainen adj (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient)
German
1 entries- flüchtig adj (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient)
Japanese
2 entries- 儚い adj (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient)
- 早く散る adj (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient)
Polish
3 entries- efemeryczny adj (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient)
- przejściowy adj (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient)
- tymczasowy adj (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient)
Portuguese
1 entries- fugaz adj (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient)
Romanian
3 entries- care zboară adj (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient)
- efemer adj (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient)
- trecător adj (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient)
Russian
2 entries- мимолётный adj (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient)
- скороте́чный adj (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient)
Spanish
1 entries- fugaz adj (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient)
Swedish
2 entries- flyktig adj (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient)
- förgänglig adj (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Watering of the eye, conjunctival congestion, distinct catarrhal conjunctivitis, and deep-seated scleral congestions, sometimes fugacious, and often accompanied by intense headache […]
Source: wiktionary
It may be that Redford's fugacious nature is not so mysterious, that it is studded in the artwork of the labs and the very stones of Sundance.
Source: wiktionary
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