fugacious

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points: 15
Words With Friends: 19
Letters: 9

Pronunciation

/fjuːˈɡeɪ.ʃəs/ (UK)

Definition of fugacious

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

Fleeting, fading quickly, transient.

“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.”
“Watering of the eye, conjunctival congestion, distinct catarrhal conjunctivitis, and deep-seated scleral congestions, sometimes fugacious, and often accompanied by intense headache […]”
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“It may be that Redford's fugacious nature is not so mysterious, that it is studded in the artwork of the labs and the very stones of Sundance.”

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fugācius, comparative of fugāciter (“evasively, fleetingly”), from fugāx (“transitory, fleeting”), from fugiō (“to flee”).

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