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ephemerous

ephemerous adjective: ephemeral.

Adjective

ephemerous (comparative more ephemerous, superlative most ephemerous)

  1. (archaic) Ephemeral.
    • Hope, fear, alarm, jealouſy, the ephemerous tale that does its buſineſs and dies in a day, all theſe things, which are the reins and ſpurs by which leaders check or urge the minds of followers, are not eaſily employed, or hardly at all, amongſt ſcattered people.1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page...

Forms of ephemerous

comparativemore ephemerous
superlativemost ephemerous

Words formed from ephemerous

Questions about ephemerous

What does ephemerous mean?
Ephemerous means ephemeral.
What part of speech is ephemerous?
Ephemerous is an adjective.

Words near ephemerous in the dictionary

  1. ephemerons
  2. ephemerophyte
  3. ephemerophytes
  4. ephemeropteran
  5. ephemeropterans
  6. ephemerous
  7. ephemerovirus
  8. ephemeroviruses
  9. ephenidine
  10. Ephes.
  11. Ephesian

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