adjective

• Tending to disappear; fleeting.

  ‘she was acutely conscious of her fugacious youth’

  More example sentences

  • ‘They are very fugacious, and now and then apparently absent.’
  • ‘Its flowers, however, are very fugacious, so much so that it is difficult to obtain good specimens, the mere gathering causing them to fall; hermaphrodite flowers, though carefully sought, were not seen.’

  Synonyms

  brief, transient, short-lived, short, momentary, sudden, cursory, transitory, ephemeral, fugitive, evanescent, fading, vanishing, flying, fly-by-night, passing, flitting, here today and gone tomorrow, temporary, impermanent, short-term, rapid, quick, swift, rushed