Impermanent

Definition: Impermanent

Impermanent

Adjective

1. Not permanent; not lasting; "politics is an impermanent factor of life"- James Thurber; "impermanent palm cottages"; "a temperary arrangement"; "temporary housing".

2. Existing or enduring for a limited time only.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Impermanent

Transientness

Temporal, temporary; provisional, provisory; deciduous; perishable, mortal, precarious, unstable, insecure; impermanent.

Crosswords: Impermanent

Books

• Architecture in Islamic Painting: Permanent and Impermanent Worlds (reference)

• Impermanent Structures: Semiotic Readings of Nelson Rodrigues' Vestido De Noiva, Album De Familia, and Anjo Negro (North Carolina Studies in the Rom) (reference)

• W. B. Yeats: Images of a Poet: My permament or impermanent images (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

i shkatrueshëm, i përkohshëm (acting, interim, interjacent, pro tem, temporal, temporary, transient, transitional, transitory), jo i fiksuar. (various references)

Arabic 

‏غير دائم, ‏زائل (evanescent, temporal, transient, transitory). (various references)

Bulgarian 

временен (ambulatory, fly-by-night, interim, interlocutory, makeshift, provisional, provisory, temporary, tentative, transient, working), непостоянен (astatic, capricious, casual, changeable, changeful, discontinuous, erratic, fickle, fluctuating, fluid, inconstant, irregular, liquid, lubricous, mobile, mutable, non-persistent, seesaw, sporadic, streaky, uncertain, unequable, uneven, unreliable, unstable, unsteady, vagarious, variable, variant, volatile, wayward, whimsical, yo-yo). (various references)

Chinese 

暂时 (makeshift). (various references)

Czech

nestálý (changeable, erratic, fickle, floating, inconstant, passing, unceasing, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, volatile). (various references)

Farsi 

ناپایدار (Changeable, Ramshackle, Transient, Transitory), بی ثبات (Shifty, Slippery, Unstable, Variable). (various references)

French

transitoire, fugace. (various references)

German

unbeständig (changeable, erratic, fickle, fitful, flighty, inconsistent, inconsistently, inconstant, inconstantly, labile, Moody, transitory, uncertain, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, volatile). (various references)

Greek 

όχι μόνιμοσ, πρόσκαιροσ (temporal), παροδικόσ (evanescent, transient, transitory). (various references)

Hebrew 

ארעי (accidental, casual, ephemeral, episodic, interim, occasional, pro tempore, provisional, temporary). (various references)

Hungarian

nem állandó (caducous, deciduous), átmeneti (caretaker government, extemporal, extemporaneous, fugacious, hitch, interim, momentary, provisional, temporary, transition, transitional), változékony (alterable, changeable, choppy, fickle, inconstant, labile, liquid, mercurial, mobile, mutable, unsettled, unsteady, variable), nem tartós, állandóság nélküli. (various references)

Italian

temporaneo (interim, temporary). (various references)

Korean 

오래 가지 않는. (various references)

Manx

neuveayn (ephemeral, fluid, non-durable, passing, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitory). (various references)

Pig Latin

impermanentay.(various references)

Portuguese

inconstante (astatic, capricious, changeable, changeful, desultory, fanciful, fickle, flighty, giddy, inconstant, light-minded, mutable, shifting, skittish, uncertain, unequable, unequal, unreliable, unstable, unsure, variable, versatile), impermanente (non-persistent). (various references)

Romanian

nepermanent. (various references)

Russian 

непостоянный (casual, changeable, changeful, fast and loose, fickle, inconstant, mercurial, mutable, unabiding, unstable, unsteady, variable, volatile, wanton). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

promenljiv (changeable, changing, declinable, fickle, mutable, shifting, unsettled, unsteady, variable, variant, volatile), nestalan (changeable, erratic, fickle, fleeting, inconsistent, inconstant, mercurial, shifty, skittish, transient, unabiding, unsteady, versatile, volatile, voluble), nepostojan (changeable, evanescent, fugacious, inconstant, labile, transient, transitory, unabiding, vacillating). (various references)

Spanish

impermanente. (various references)

Swedish

obeständig (fugitive, inconstant, non-persistent). (various references)

Turkish

süreksiz (transient, transitory), geçici (ad interim, Band aid, casual, curable, deciduous, ephemeral, extrinsic, fading, flying, fortuitous, fugacious, interim, interlocutory, jury, makeshift, momentary, palliative, passing, pro forma, provisional, provisory, provo, stopgap, temporal, temporary, tentative, transient, transitory, volatile), devamsız (absentee, discontinuous). (various references)

Ukrainian

нетривалий (succinct), непостійний (ambulatory, capricious, changeable, changeful, fickle, flighty, instable, mercurial, non-permanent, shifting, unstable, unsteady, variant, volatile, voluble, weathercock). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nhất thời (momentary, momently, precarious, temporary, transient, transitory, unabiding), không vĩnh viễn, không trường cửu, không thường xuyên năm khi mười hoạ tạm thời, không lâu bền (undurable). (various references)

fragile, fragilia, fragilius. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "impermanent": impermanently. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Impermanent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: impermanently. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: permanent.

-3 letters: antimere, aperient, immanent, meantime, permeant, remanent, trainmen.

-4 letters: ammeter, arenite, emerita, eminent, emirate, emptier, enamine, entrain, etamine, interne, mannite, marmite, matinee, meatier, meatmen, metamer, minaret, painter, pannier, peatier, penname, pennate, pentane, perinea, pertain, pinnate, prename, primate, raiment, remnant, repaint, retinae, tempera, trainee.

-5 letters: airmen, ammine, ampere, armpit, arpent, emetin, empire, enrapt, entera.

+2 letters: impermanently, semipermanent.