Ephemeral \E*phem"er*al\, a.
1. Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer
than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower.
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2. Short-lived; existing or continuing for a short time only.
"Ephemeral popularity." --V. Knox.
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Sentences not of ephemeral, but of eternal,
efficacy. --Sir J.
Stephen.
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Ephemeral fly (Zo["o]l.), one of a group of neuropterous
insects, belonging to the genus Ephemera and many allied
genera, which live in the adult or winged state only for a
short time. The larv[ae] are aquatic; -- called also day
fly and May fly.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ephemeral \E*phem"er*al\, n.
Anything lasting but a day, or a brief time; an ephemeral
plant, insect, etc.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ephemeral
adj : 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" [syn: passing, short-lived, transient,
transitory, fugacious]
WordNet (r) 2.0
47 Moby Thesaurus words for "ephemeral":
brief, brittle, capricious, changeable, corruptible, deciduous,
dying, episodic, evanescent, evergreen, fading, fickle, fleeting,
flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, fugacious,
fugitive, half-hardy, hardy, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive,
inconstant, insubstantial, momentary, mortal, mutable, nondurable,
nonpermanent, passing, perennial, perishable, short, short-lived,
subject to death, temporal, temporary, transient, transitive,
transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable, volatile
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
ephemeral creek, ephemeral groups, ephemeral key, ephemeral lake, ephemeral materials, ephemeral river, ephemeral stream, ephemeral streams, ephemeral water bodies, fugacious, passing, Search the Web, short-lived, transient, transitory
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