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fugacious: \fyoo-GAY-shus\ adjective
: lasting a short time,temporary.
Examples:
The rock band's rise in popularity turned out to be
fugacious, and within two years its members had moved on to other careers.
"It is of no surprise that their debt problem is not fugacious,
it is insurmountable. It is an impossible task for Greece to pay its
debt." - From a letter to the editor by Alfonso Tiu Henderson in the
Las Vegas Review-Journal, February 12, 2012
"Fugacious" is often used to describe immaterial things like emotions,
but not always. Botanists, for example, use it to describe plant parts
that wither or fall off before the usual time. Things that are fugacious
are fleeting, and etymologically they can also be said to be fleeing. "
Fugacious" derives from the Latin verb "fugere," which means "to flee."
Other descendants of "fugere" include "fugitive," "refuge," and "subterfuge.
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