fugacious
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adjective \fyü-ˈgā-shəs\Definition of FUGACIOUS
: lasting a short time : evanescent
Examples of FUGACIOUS
- <savor the fugacious pleasures of life as intensely as the more enduring ones>
Origin of FUGACIOUS
Latin fugac-, fugax, from fugere
First Known Use: 1634
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- Synonyms
- brief, deciduous, ephemeral, evanescent, flash, fleeting, momentary, fugitive, impermanent, passing, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitory
Rhymes with FUGACIOUS
audacious, bodacious, capacious, cetaceous, crustaceous, curvaceous, drupaceous, edacious, fallacious, flirtatious, hellacious, herbaceous, loquacious, mendacious, micaceous, pomaceous, predaceous, pugnacious, rapacious, rosaceous, sagacious, salacious, sebaceous, sequacious, setaceous, tenacious, testaceous, tufaceous, ungracious, veracious, vinaceous, voracious
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