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fugacious

/fjuːˈɡeɪ.ʃəs/

fugacious adjective: fleeting, fading quickly, transient.

Adjective

fugacious (comparative more fugacious, superlative most fugacious)

  1. 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.1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Furnished Room”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, →OCLC
    • Watering of the eye, conjunctival congestion, distinct catarrhal conjunctivitis, and deep-seated scleral congestions, sometimes fugacious, and often accompanied by intense headache […]1916, George Edmund De Schweinitz, Diseases of the Eye, page 589

Forms of fugacious

comparativemore fugacious
superlativemost fugacious

Origin of fugacious

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

Words formed from fugacious

Questions about fugacious

What does fugacious mean?
Fugacious means fleeting, fading quickly, transient.
What part of speech is fugacious?
Fugacious is an adjective.
How do you pronounce fugacious?
Fugacious is pronounced /fjuːˈɡeɪ.ʃəs/ (UK).

Words near fugacious in the dictionary

  1. Fufore
  2. fufu
  3. fufufu
  4. fug
  5. fuga
  6. fugacious
  7. fugaciously
  8. fugaciousness
  9. fugacities
  10. fugacity
  11. fugacy

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