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Definition of transitory in English: transitoryadjectiveˈtrɑːnsɪt(ə)riˈtrɑːnzɪt(ə)riˈtranzɪt(ə)riˈtransɪt(ə)ri Not permanent. transitory periods of medieval greatness Example sentencesExamples - They have faded quite a bit, and that makes perfect sense since they were created as transitory objects.
- And in this day to day life you live no more than in that moving and transitory moment.
- Consumption, as well as income, has both a permanent and a transitory component.
- To most though, it's typical of the transitory nature of everything in town.
- And of course newspapers have to find ways of protecting transitory information in a short time-frame and make money from it.
- The visible things are transitory: it is the invisible things that are really permanent.
- As a result, there was a transitory period of political and economic stabilisation in the early twenties.
- For that one single moment, that transitory instant, I was actually delighted to see him again.
- Furthermore, a characteristic could be something temporary or transitory if the subject of taunts or insults.
- It was certainly part of his thinking, the transitory nature of things.
- In short, knowing how transitory life is, let us seize the fleeting, refulgent moment.
- I think it was just hormones or something equally useless and transitory.
- The problem, however, is that the growth effect is transitory - a one off, as the British say.
- The things that belong to the visible realm are transitory and impermanent.
- Given the marginal and transitory nature of these shows, it is a wonder that anyone remembers them at all.
- It is only prudent to renounce what is transitory and illegitimate for that is what is permanent and sublime.
- I mean what could you possibly win, apart from cash and the kind of frankly transitory and ephemeral applause of certain kinds?
- Some of her brief message-poems for friends can seem tenuous and transitory.
- In this way, the creative process is likened to a search for something that is evasive and transitory, something that is difficult to grasp.
- These paintings depicted the fleeting moments, transitory effects of atmosphere.
Synonyms temporary, transient, brief, short, short-lived, short-term, impermanent, ephemeral, evanescent, momentary, fleeting, flying, passing, fugitive, flitting, fading, mutable, unstable, volatile, here today and gone tomorrow, fly-by-night rare fugacious
Derivatives adverbˈtransɪtrɪli The obvious ability for the transitorily poor to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps means that policy interventions on their behalf are not needed. Example sentencesExamples - However, strategist that he was, he chose to try to build for the future rather than satisfy the urge to tear at the transitorily entrenched.
- Peritoneal transport in peritoneal dialysis patients is not affected by transitorily successful renal transplantation.
- The direction thus becomes transitorily the absolute energy minimum.
nounˈtransɪt(ə)rɪnəs Most of the works on show have this unified tone of transitoriness and uncertainty. Example sentencesExamples - Gates, cars, rabbit carcasses are all markers of transitoriness.
- There's something that collectors alone appreciate, about the transitoriness of life, of the fragile miracle of ownership, and of the sense of bequeathing something to posterity.
- The transitoriness of life, introspection and spiritual pursuits, are his eternal themes.
- A sense of the mutability and transitoriness of the world is intensified by the departures, behind the wall, of a sailing ship and a steam-train.
- At the same time, dance places this experience of identity in motion so that the dancing body comprehends the transitoriness of each moment and its changing relation to the flux of the world.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French transitoire, from Christian Latin transitorius, from transit- 'gone across' (see transit). Definition of transitory in US English: transitoryadjective Not permanent. transitory periods of medieval greatness Example sentencesExamples - For that one single moment, that transitory instant, I was actually delighted to see him again.
- The visible things are transitory: it is the invisible things that are really permanent.
- It is only prudent to renounce what is transitory and illegitimate for that is what is permanent and sublime.
- It was certainly part of his thinking, the transitory nature of things.
- And of course newspapers have to find ways of protecting transitory information in a short time-frame and make money from it.
- The problem, however, is that the growth effect is transitory - a one off, as the British say.
- In short, knowing how transitory life is, let us seize the fleeting, refulgent moment.
- To most though, it's typical of the transitory nature of everything in town.
- I mean what could you possibly win, apart from cash and the kind of frankly transitory and ephemeral applause of certain kinds?
- The things that belong to the visible realm are transitory and impermanent.
- These paintings depicted the fleeting moments, transitory effects of atmosphere.
- As a result, there was a transitory period of political and economic stabilisation in the early twenties.
- And in this day to day life you live no more than in that moving and transitory moment.
- Consumption, as well as income, has both a permanent and a transitory component.
- In this way, the creative process is likened to a search for something that is evasive and transitory, something that is difficult to grasp.
- Furthermore, a characteristic could be something temporary or transitory if the subject of taunts or insults.
- They have faded quite a bit, and that makes perfect sense since they were created as transitory objects.
- Some of her brief message-poems for friends can seem tenuous and transitory.
- Given the marginal and transitory nature of these shows, it is a wonder that anyone remembers them at all.
- I think it was just hormones or something equally useless and transitory.
Synonyms temporary, transient, brief, short, short-lived, short-term, impermanent, ephemeral, evanescent, momentary, fleeting, flying, passing, fugitive, flitting, fading, mutable, unstable, volatile, here today and gone tomorrow, fly-by-night
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French transitoire, from Christian Latin transitorius, from transit- ‘gone across’ (see transit). |