Ill-gotten gains are short-lived. The only way to make real money is to earn every penny.
Source: tatoeba (28563)
Short-lived
//ʃɔɹtˈlɪvd//
Synonyms for "short-lived" (43 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (13)
Related words (21)
Related word relations
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3 entriesderived
2 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
28 translations across 20 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- βραχύβιος adj (not existing for long)
- ὀλιγόβιος adj (not existing for long)
Bulgarian
2 entries- кратък adj (not existing for long)
- мимолетен adj (not existing for long)
Catalan
1 entries- efímer adj (not existing for long)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 短命 adj (not existing for long)
- 短暫 /短暂 adj (not existing for long)
Finnish
2 entries- lyhytikäinen adj (not existing for long)
- lyhytkestoinen adj (not existing for long)
German
1 entries- kurzlebig adj (not existing for long)
Hungarian
1 entries- rövid életű adj (not existing for long)
Irish
3 entries- duthain adj (not existing for long)
- díomuan adj (not existing for long)
- gearrshaolach adj (not existing for long)
Japanese
1 entries- 儚い adj (not existing for long)
Korean
1 entries- 단명하는 adj (not existing for long)
Macedonian
1 entries- краткотраен adj (not existing for long)
Māori
1 entries- rangitahi adj (not existing for long)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- kortlivet adj (not existing for long)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- kortliva adj (not existing for long)
Polish
1 entries- krótkotrwały adj (not existing for long)
Russian
1 entries- кратковре́менный adj (not existing for long)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- krȁtkotrājan adj (not existing for long)
Spanish
2 entries- de corta duración adj (not existing for long)
- efímero adj (not existing for long)
Swedish
2 entries- kortlivad adj (not existing for long)
- kortvarig adj (not existing for long)
Welsh
1 entries- oesfyr adj (not existing for long)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
I wouldn't let a goof-up like that get to you. People have short memories and the one good thing about gossip is that it's short-lived.
Source: tatoeba (41339)
To my regret, his was nothing but a short-lived triumph.
Source: tatoeba (63701)
Our love affair was as short-lived as a soap bubble.
Source: tatoeba (247707)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.