fugacious
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin fugācius, comparative of fugāciter (“evasively, fleetingly”), from fugāx (“transitory, fleeting”), from fugiō (“to flee”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fugacious (comparative more fugacious, superlative most fugacious)
- Fleeting, fading quickly, transient.
- 1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Furnished Room”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, →OCLC:
- Restless, shifting, fugacious as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population of the red brick district of the lower West Side. Homeless, they have a hundred homes.
- 1916, George Edmund De Schweinitz, Diseases of the Eye[1], page 589:
- Watering of the eye, conjunctival congestion, distinct catarrhal conjunctivitis, and deep-seated scleral congestions, sometimes fugacious, and often accompanied by intense headache […]
- 1916, James Branch Cabell, The Certain Hour[2]:
- " […] The years slip away fugacious, and Time that brings forth her children only to devour them grins most hellishly, for Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony,—and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle? You wouldn't have me put on exhibition as a lusus naturae?"
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]Fleeting, fading quickly, transient
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