Momentary \Mo"men*ta*ry\, a. [L. momentarius. See Moment.]
Done in a moment; continuing only a moment; lasting a very
short time; as, a momentary pang.
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This momentary joy breeds months of pain. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
momentary
adj : lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance";
"fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of
things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse" [syn:
fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "momentary":
annual, biannual, biennial, bimonthly, biweekly, brief, brittle,
capricious, catamenial, centenary, centennial, changeable,
corruptible, daily, decennial, deciduous, diurnal, dying,
ephemeral, evanescent, fading, fickle, fleeting, flitting,
fly-by-night, flying, fortnightly, fragile, frail, fugacious,
fugitive, hasty, hebdomadal, hourly, immediate, impermanent,
impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, instant, instantaneous,
insubstantial, lightning-like, menstrual, momentaneous, momently,
monthly, mortal, mutable, nondurable, nonpermanent, passing,
perishable, presto, quarterly, quick, quick as lightning,
quick as thought, quotidian, secular, semestral, semiannual,
semimonthly, semiweekly, semiyearly, short, short-lived, temporal,
temporary, tertian, transient, transitive, transitory, triennial,
undurable, unenduring, unstable, volatile, weekly, yearly
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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