Borrowed fromLatinfugācius, comparative offugāciter(“evasively, fleetingly”), fromfugāx(“transitory, fleeting”), fromfugiō(“I flee”).
fugacious (comparativemorefugacious,superlativemostfugacious)
- Fleeting,fading quickly,transient.
1906 April,O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Furnished Room”, inThe Four Million, New York, N.Y.:McClure, Phillips & Co,→OCLC: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.
1916, George Edmund De Schweinitz,Diseases of the Eye[1], page589:Watering of the eye, conjunctival congestion, distinct catarrhal conjunctivitis, and deep-seated scleral congestions, sometimesfugacious, and often accompanied by intense headache[…]
1916,James Branch Cabell,The Certain Hour[2]:"[…] The years slip awayfugacious, and Time that brings forth her children only to devour them grins most hellishly, for Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony,—and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle? You wouldn't have me put on exhibition as alusus naturae?"
2011, Michael Feeney Callan,Robert Redford: The Biography[3], Alfred A. Knopf,→ISBN, page xvii:It may be that Redford'sfugacious nature is not so mysterious, that it is studded in the artwork of the labs and the very stones of Sundance.
Fleeting, fading quickly, transient
- Armenian:վաղանցիկ (hy)(vaġancʻik),կարճատեւ (hy)(karčatew),անցողիկ (hy)(ancʻoġik)
- Bulgarian:мимолетен (bg)(mimoleten),краткотраен (bg)(kratkotraen)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:易逃逸的(yìtáoyì de),難捕捉的 /难捕捉的(nánbǔzhuō de),無常的 /无常的(wúcháng de)
- Dutch:vluchtig (nl),vlietend (nl)
- Finnish:katoavainen (fi)
- German:flüchtig (de)
- Japanese:早く散る(hayaku chiru),儚い (ja)(hakanai)
- Polish:przejściowy (pl),tymczasowy (pl),efemeryczny (pl)
- Portuguese:fugaz (pt)
- Romanian:trecător (ro) m,efemer (ro) m,care zboară
- Russian:мимолётный (ru)(mimoljótnyj),скороте́чный (ru) m(skorotéčnyj)
- Spanish:fugaz (es)
- Swedish:flyktig (sv),förgänglig (sv)
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