fugacious
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fugācius, comparative of fugāciter (“evasively, fleetingly”), from fugāx (“transitory, fleeting”), from fugiō (“I flee”).
Pronunciation
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Adjective
fugacious (comparative more fugacious, superlative most fugacious)
- Fleeting, fading quickly, transient.
- 1906, O. Henry, "The Furnished Room", in The Four Million:
- 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.
- 1916, George Edmund De Schweinitz, Diseases of the Eye[1], page 589:
- Watering of the eye, conjunctival congestion, distinct catarrhal conjunctivitis, and deep-seated scleral congestions, sometimes fugacious, and often accompanied by intense headache […]
- 2011, Michael Feeney Callan, Robert Redford: The Biography, Alfred A. Knopf (2011), →ISBN, page xvii:
- 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.
- 1906, O. Henry, "The Furnished Room", in The Four Million:
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Translations
Fleeting, fading quickly, transient
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