fugacious
tending to disappear quickly; fleeting
Word origin: From Latin fugax, fleeting, from fugere, to flee.
Fugacious in a sentence
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The poem dwells on the fugacious beauty of cherry blossoms in spring.
The poet was preoccupied with fugacious things: dew, birdsong, the brief flush of dawn.
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Critics initially dismissed the composer's late works as merely blank, but later scholars recognized in them a deliberate restraint that concealed considerable technical sophistication.
Using “fugacious” well
Fugacious means tending to vanish quickly and is a more literary synonym for fleeting. It often describes things in nature that last only a short while.
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