fugacious
EN • English
//fjuːˈɡeɪ.ʃəs//
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Definitions & Usage
adjective
#1Fleeting, fading quickly, transient.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“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.”
— 1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Furnished Room”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, →OCLC:
“Watering of the eye, conjunctival congestion, distinct catarrhal conjunctivitis, and deep-seated scleral congestions, sometimes fugacious, and often accompanied by intense headache […]”
— 1916, George Edmund De Schweinitz, Diseases of the Eye, page 589:
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— 1916, James Branch Cabell, The Certain Hour:
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