temporarily

Adverb

Meaning

In a temporary manner; for a time.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

fleetingly transiently ephemerally meanwhile time temporary briefly interim provisional meantime experimentally transient beforehand momentarily empirically
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Antonyms

permanently evermore always constant constantly consistently
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Phrases with the word

lodge temporarily man whose wife is temporarily absent make temporarily deaf temporarily inactive live with someone temporarily man whose wife is temporarily away

Anagrams

polarimetry premorality

Examples

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily. Martin Scorsese

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Martin Luther King Jr.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. John Steinbeck

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. Albert Camus

When you have to choose among methods, your locus of attention is drawn from the task and temporarily becomes the decision itself. Jef Raskin

The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze. Quentin Crisp

Close letter words and terms

temporaneous temporaneously temporaneousness temporarily able-bodied temporarily deferred temporarily embarrassed millionaire