Transient [adjective]

Definition of Transient:

temporary

Synonyms of Transient:

● Ephemeral

● Fleeting

● Transitory

● Short-term

● Flash

● Temporal

● Flying

● Brief

● Fugitive

● Short

● Volatile

● Passing

● Fly-by-night

● Changeable

● Evanescent

● Flitting

● Impermanent

● Insubstantial

● Momentary

● Moving

● Provisional

● Short-lived

● Unstable

● Fugacious

● Transmigratory

● Deciduous

● Going by

● Migrating


Opposite/Antonyms of Transient:

● Lengthy

● Long

● Long-lived

● Perpetual

● Permanent

● Lasting

● Enduring


Sentence/Example of Transient:

Calmness is imperative: to be as motionless as transient beings can.

They got exactly what the transient may expect in any country.

The lines of camp-fires begin to gleam from the transient Bedouin villages.

"I will not make the most of it, Mr. Eld," the old man said, with a transient smile.

The emotion of grief is real with them, I believe, but transient.

Even in the Homeric poems, we can see that these ideas are transient.

Paul hung his head in a transient shame, and murmured that he was sorry.

They are transient things, I yearn for the Immortal state, Nirvana.

Inspectors then understand that one is to be but a transient guest.

It had the transient quality of a dream in which we were but masqueraders.