ephemeral
41ephemeral — e phem·er·al || rÉ™l adj. lasting only a day; short lived, transitory …
42ephemeral — [ɪ fɛm(ə)r(ə)l, fi:m ] adjective lasting or used for a very short time. ↘(chiefly of plants) having a very short life cycle. Derivatives ephemerality noun ephemerally adverb ephemeralness noun …
43ephemeral — a. short lived, transitory, transient, fleeting, flitting, evanescent, fugitive, fugacious, momentary, brief …
44ephemeral — adj short lived, momentary, temporary, brief, of short duration; impermanent, mortal, unen during, fleeting, passing, fading; evanescent, transient, transitory, fugacious, caducous, deciduous, mono hemerous …
45ephemeral — ephem·er·al …
46ephemeral — [ɪˈfemərəl] adj lasting for only a short time …
47ephemeral — adj. 1 lasting or of use for only a short time; transitory. 2 lasting only a day. 3 (of an insect, flower, etc.) lasting a day or a few days. Derivatives: ephemerality n. ephemerally adv. ephemeralness n. Etymology: Gk ephemeros: see EPHEMERA …
48ephemeral, fallacy of the — Mistake made by a transitory being who believes in the immutability of things. The fallacy is so named in D’Alembert s Dream by Diderot, who gives the illustration from Fontenelle of the rose, who said that so far as any rose could remember, no… …
49ephemeral stream — A stream flowing only in direct response to precipitation [16] …
50ephemeral stream — Generally a small stream, or upper reach of a stream, that flows only in direct response to precipitation. It receives no protracted water supply from melting snow or other sources and its channel is above the water table at all times.… …