| 单词 | fugacious |
| 释义 | fugacious (once / 74806 pages) adj Something that's fugacious lasts a very short time. You say you'll wear your trendy new jeans for years but the truth is, their style is so fugacious you'll feel silly in them long before they wear out. When you describe something that passes quickly, or that's ephemeral and fleeting, you can use the adjective fugacious. When you live in Maine, the summer seems fugacious, and after looking forward all year to your senior prom, you'll find the night so fugacious that it seems to last only an hour. The origin can be traced back to the Latin word fugax, which means "apt to flee, or timid." WORD FAMILYfugacious: fugaciousness+/fugacity: fugacious USAGE EXAMPLESThe moment you catch the tiger by the tail, there’s a new tiger whose fugacious tail requires catching. Forbes(Mar 09, 2015) The Reporter, on the other hand, calls it "a fugacious bit of whimsy that can only be judged minor Woody Allen". The Guardian(Jul 18, 2014) Flowers perfect, regular or somewhat irregular, with 3 more or less herbaceous persistent sepals and 3 fugacious petals. Gray, Asa, The Manual of the Botany of the Nor...(2012) adj lasting a very short time fugacious blossoms Syn ephemeral, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory impermanent, temporary not permanent; not lasting |
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