Synonyms for ephemeral
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Fleeting — lasting for a short period of time
fleeting, transient, transitory, short-lived, temporary, momentary, impermanent, perishable, brief, passing, mutable, fugitive, short, volatile, flitting, fugacious, mortal, deciduous, flying, transitive, temporal
Definitions
- adj. 1
Lasting for a short period of time.
Related words
- Word family
- ephemerally ephemeralness ephemera ephemeron ephemerality
- Phrases
- ephemeral state
Example sentences
- transient Everything is transient and therefore sorrowful.
- fleeting At the age of 84, I dreamed about a fleeting love.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| ephemeral | rising | |
| transient | steady | |
| fleeting | rising | |
| transitory | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- short1, brief1
- 6 letters
- flying2, mortal2
- 7 letters
- passing2, mutable3
- 8 letters
- volatile3, temporal3, fugitive3, fleeting2, flitting2
- 9 letters
- temporary4, transient2, momentary4, deciduous4, fugacious
- 10 letters
- perishable4, transitive, transitory4
- 11 letters
- impermanent
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (flying2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- éphémère
- Italiano
- effimero
- Español
- efímero
- Deutsch
- vergänglich