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temporaneous

temporaneous adjective: temporary.

Adjective

temporaneous (comparative more temporaneous, superlative most temporaneous)

  1. (obsolete) temporary
    • Oxen have a permanent and temporaneous set of horns1818, James Carver, A Treatise on the Age of the Horse
    • Those things may cause a temporaneous disunion.1681, Henry Hallywell, Melampronoea

Forms of temporaneous

comparativemore temporaneous
superlativemost temporaneous

Origin of temporaneous

Borrowed from Late Latin temporāneus (“timely”), derived from Latin tempor- (“time”).

Words formed from temporaneous

Questions about temporaneous

What does temporaneous mean?
Temporaneous means temporary.
What part of speech is temporaneous?
Temporaneous is an adjective.

Words near temporaneous in the dictionary

  1. temporals
  2. temporalties
  3. temporalty
  4. temporalward
  5. temporalwards
  6. temporaneous
  7. temporaneously
  8. temporaneousness
  9. temporaries
  10. temporarily
  11. temporarily able-bodied

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