Fugacious

Definition: Fugacious

Fugacious

Adjective

1. Enduring a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but at is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms".

Etymology: Fugacious \Fu*ga"cious\, adjective. [Latin expression fugax, fugacis, from fugere: compare to the French expression fugace. See Fugitive.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Health	Partial amaurosis, sudden and transitory associated with headache, vertigo, and nausea. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Fugacious

Synonyms: ephemeral (adj), passing (adj), short-lived (adj), transient (adj), transitory (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Transientness	Adjective: transient, transitory, transitive; passing, evanescent, fleeting, cursory, short-lived, ephemeral; flying; Verb: fugacious, fugitive; shifting, slippery; spasmodic; instantaneous, momentaneous.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Fugacious

English words defined with "fugacious": Fugitive compositions. (references)

Expression using "fugacious": partial fugacious amaurosis. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "fugacious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏سريع الزوال (ephemeral, evanescent, flighty, fragile, transient, transitory, volatile). (various references)

Bulgarian		краткотраен (deciduous, ephemeral, fleeting, momentary, perishable, rapid, short, transitory, unabiding), мимолетен (evanescent, evasive, passing, short lived, swift, transient, vaporous), летящ (flying, unfunded, volant). (various references)

Czech		přechodný (intermediate, momentary, passing, temporary, transient, transitional, transitive, transitory). (various references)

French		disparaître rapidement. (various references)

German		Amaurosis partialis fugax (amaurosis partialis fugax, partial fugacious amaurosis), Amaurosis fugax (fugacious amaurosis). (various references)

Hungarian		múló (caducous, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, fugitive, impermanent, passing, transient), múlékony (caducous, deciduous, evanescent, fugitive, unabiding), ingatag (fickle, flighty, labile, mercurial, mutable, precarious, sandy, shaky, shilly-shally), átmeneti (caretaker government, extemporal, extemporaneous, hitch, impermanent, interim, momentary, provisional, temporary, transition, transitional). (various references)

Indonesian		fana (fleeting, mortal, transitory). (various references)

Italian		fugace (fleeting, short lived). (various references)

Pig Latin		ugaciousfay

Portuguese		fugaz (fleeting, temporary), transitório (brief, deciduous, ephemeral, fleeting, frail, makeshift, momentary, passing, perishable, perishing, temporary, transitional, transitory), efêmero (deciduous, drake, ephemeral, fleeting, frail, momentary, perishable, perishing, transient, transitory), caduco (caducous, decayed, deciduous, decrepit, dilapidated, effete, expired, impoverished, lapsed, rickety). (various references)

Romanian		trecãtor (bystander, evanescent, foot passenger, fungous, goer, momentary, passer, passer by, passing, pedestrian, temporary, transient, transitory). (various references)

Russian		мимолетный (evanescent, fleeting, passing, short lived, transient, transitory). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prolazan (brief, caducous, evanescent, fleeting, fly-by-night, momentary, negotiable, passable, passing, perishable, pervious, temporary, transient, transitory), nepostojan (changeable, evanescent, impermanent, inconstant, labile, transient, transitory, unabiding, vacillating). (various references)

Spanish		fugaz (ephemeral, fleeting, sketchily, transient). (various references)

Swedish		flyktig (casual, cursorial, cursory, elusive, evanescent, fleet, fleeting, flighty, fugitive, glancing, quick, transient, voiatile, volatile), kortlivad (ephemeral, short lived). (various references)

Turkish		uçucu (evaporating, volatile), kısa ömürlü (ephemeral, shortlived), geçici (ad interim, Band aid, casual, curable, deciduous, ephemeral, extrinsic, fading, flying, fortuitous, impermanent, interim, interlocutory, jury, makeshift, momentary, palliative, passing, pro forma, provisional, provisory, provo, stopgap, temporal, temporary, tentative, transient, transitory, volatile). (various references)

Ukrainian		скороминущий (passing), недовгочасний (non-durable), летючий. (various references)

Vietnamese		thoáng qua khó bắt, phù du (ephemeral, ephemerous, fugitive), khó giữ, chóng t� n (ephemeral, ephemerous). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Words rhyming with "fugacious" (pronounced 'Fu*ga"cious'): Artificious, Astucious, Atrocious, Audacious, Auspicious, Autoecious, Avaricious, Bibacious, Capacious, Capricious, Cilicious, Contumacious, Convicious, Delicious, Fumacious, Furacious, Glacious, gracious, heteroecious, inauspicious, inefficacious, injudicious, judicious, Linguacious, loquacious, luscious, Malgracious, malicious, mendacious, Meracious, meretricious, minacious, Misgracious, monoecious, mordacious, Multiplicious, Multiscious, Obstetricious, Officious, Omniscious, Overluscious, Overofficious, Palacious, Perspicacious, Pertinacious, Pervicacious, Petrosilicious, Phenicious, Phoenicious, Precocious. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-f-g-i-o-s-u-u"
	-3 letters: fiasco, fucous, fugios, guacos.
	-4 letters: agios, coifs, cuifs, ficus, focus, fucus, fugio, fugus, guaco.
	-5 letters: agio, asci, ciao, cigs, cogs, coif, cuif, fags, fico, figs, fisc, foci, fogs, fuci, fugs, fugu, goas, oafs, ocas, sago, scag, sofa.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-f-g-i-o-s-u-u"
	+2 letters: calcifugous.
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