| 单词 | impermanent |
| 释义 | impermanent (once / 25583 pages) adj Impermanent describes something that's temporary, like a bad poison ivy rash, a one-day sale at your favorite store, or a message written in the sky by an airplane. The adjective impermanent is useful for talking about things that are fleeting or transitory; bubbles, the summer, a baby's cute lisp, and a wonderful dream are all impermanent. Many religions, especially Buddhism, emphasize the impermanent nature of everything in life, and the inevitability of change. The word at the root of impermanent is permanent, from the Latin permanere, "endure, continue, or stay to the end." WORD FAMILYimpermanent: impermanence, impermanency, impermanently+/impermanence: impermanences/impermanency: impermanencies/permanence: permanences/permanency: permanencies/permanent: impermanent, lastingly, permanence, permanency, permanently, permanents, semipermanent/semipermanent: semipermanently USAGE EXAMPLESBut because Obama had to work around Congress, much of this work is both limited and impermanent. The Guardian(Nov 14, 2016) Plus, he was well aware that few things were as impermanent as the career of a professional athlete. Wall Street Journal(Sep 26, 2016) Taoism teaches that everything is impermanent, that life is very brief. New York Times(Sep 26, 2016) 1adj not permanent; not lasting "politics is an impermanent factor of life"- James Thurber impermanent palm cottages Syn|Ant temporary acting serving temporarily especially as a substitute ephemeral, fugacious, passing, short-lived, transient, transitorylasting a very short time episodiclimited in duration to a single episode evanescenttending to vanish like vapor fly-by-nightephemeral improvised, jury-rigged, makeshiftdone or made using whatever is available interimserving during an intermediate interval of time pro tem, pro temporefor the time being shipboardcasual or ephemeral as if taking place on board a ship temporalnot eternal terminablecapable of being terminated after a designated time workingadopted as a temporary basis for further work unstablelacking stability or fixity or firmness lasting, permanent continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place unchangeablenot changeable or subject to change ineradicablenot able to be destroyed or rooted out abiding, enduring, imperishableunceasing aeonian, ageless, eonian, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unceasing, unendingcontinuing forever or indefinitely indissolubleused of decisions and contracts standingnot created for a particular occasion stableresistant to change of position or condition 2adj existing or enduring for a limited time only Syn finite bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent |
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