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transitory 音標拼音: [tr'ænzət ,ɔri] a. 暫時的,短暫的,曇花一現的 暫時的,短暫的,曇花一現的 transitory adj 1: lasting a very short time; " the ephemeral joys of childhood"; " a passing fancy"; " youth' s transient beauty"; " love is transitory but it is eternal"; " fugacious blossoms" [ synonym: { ephemeral}, { passing}, { short- lived}, { transient}, { transitory}, { fugacious}] Transitory \ Tran" si* to* ry\, a. [ L. transitorius: cf. F. transitoire. See { Transient}.] Continuing only for a short time; not enduring; fleeting; evanescent. [ 1913 Webster] Comfort and succor all those who, in this transitory life, are in trouble. -- Bk. of Com. Prayer. [ 1913 Webster] It was not the transitory light of a comet, which shines and glows for a wile, and then . . . vanishes into nothing. -- South. [ 1913 Webster] { Transitory action} ( Law), an action which may be brought in any county, as actions for debt, and the like; -- opposed to local action. -- Blackstone. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: transient; short- lived; brief. See { Transient}. [ 1913 Webster] 97 Moby Thesaurus words for " transitory": able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, alterable, alterative, brief, brittle, capricious, changeable, checkered, circumforaneous, corruptible, deciduous, discursive, divagatory, drifting, dying, ephemeral, errant, evanescent, ever- changing, fading, fickle, fleeting, flexible, flitting, floating, fluid, fly- by- night, flying, footloose, footloose and fancy- free, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, gadding, gypsy- like, gypsyish, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, insubstantial, kaleidoscopic, landloping, malleable, many- sided, meandering, metamorphic, migrational, migratory, mobile, modifiable, momentary, mortal, movable, mutable, nomad, nomadic, nondurable, nonpermanent, nonuniform, passing, perishable, permutable, plastic, protean, proteiform, rambling, ranging, resilient, roaming, roving, rubbery, shifting, short- lived, short- term, straggling, straying, strolling, supple, temporal, temporary, traipsing, transient, transitive, transmigratory, transubstantiate, undurable, unenduring, unstable, vagabond, vagrant, variable, volatile, wandering
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