Fugitive
Fugitive adjective - Lasting only for a short time.
Usage example: had fugitive thoughts of leaving town after finishing high school but never acted on them
Fugacious
Fugacious adjective - Lasting only for a short time.
Usage example: savor the fugacious pleasures of life as intensely as the more enduring ones
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- brief and fugitive
- brief and fugacious
- short and fugitive
- short and fugacious
- ephemeral and fugitive
- ephemeral and fugacious
- unstable and fugitive
- unstable and fugacious
- volatile and fugitive
- volatile and fugacious
- flitting and fugitive
- flitting and fugacious
- fading and fugitive
- fading and fugacious
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Fugacious or Fugitive. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/fugitive/fugacious.
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