evanescent

Speech parts

1. evanescent - Adjective

2. evanescent - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; vanishing; fleeting; as, evanescent joys.

Vanishing from notice; imperceptible.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

little short inconstant brief passing flying temporary quick unstable short-lived temporal interim volatile provisional mortal

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Antonyms

long great fixed deep permanent continuous

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Related terms

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Phrases with the word

evanescent fly less evanescent evanescent insect multiple evanescent white dot syndrome

Examples

Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy. John Constable

All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Our knowledge of physics only takes us back so far. Before this instant of cosmic time, all the laws of physics or chemistry are as evanescent as rings of smoke. Joseph Silk

I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly. Jeffrey Eugenides

I want to love you simply, in words not spoken: tinder to the flame which transforms it to ash I want to love you simply, in signs not expressed: clouds to the rain which make them evanescent (Aku Ingin-I Want) Sapardi Djoko Damono

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. Samuel Butler (novelist)

Close letter words and terms

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