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shortlived
adjective as in little
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Strong matches
adjective as in momentary
adjective as in passing
Strongest matches
adjective as in perishable
adjective as in short
Strong matches
adjective as in short-lived
adjective as in swift
Strongest matches
adjective as in temporal
Strongest match
adjective as in temporary
Strong matches
adjective as in transient/transitory
adjective as in volatile
adjective as in transient
Strongest matches
adjective as in brief
Weak matches
adjective as in transitory
adjective as in ad interim
adjective as in fugacious
adjective as in pro tem
Weak matches
- acting
- ad hoc
- ad interim
- alternate
- Band-Aid
- brief
- changeable
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- fleeting
- for the time being
- fugacious
- fugitive
- impermanent
- interim
- limited
- make-do
- makeshift
- momentary
- mortal
- overnight
- passing
- perishable
- pro tempore
- provisional
- provisory
- shifting
- short
- short-lived
- slapdash
- stopgap
- substitute
- summary
- supply
- temp
- transient
- transitory
- unfixed
- unstable
- volatile
adjective as in short-range
Strongest match
Weak matches
- acting
- ad hoc
- ad interim
- alternate
- Band-Aid
- brief
- changeable
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- fleeting
- for the time being
- fugacious
- fugitive
- impermanent
- interim
- limited
- make-do
- makeshift
- momentary
- mortal
- overnight
- passing
- perishable
- pro tem
- pro tempore
- provisional
- provisory
- shifting
- short
- short-lived
- short-term
- slapdash
- stopgap
- substitute
- summary
- supply
- temp
- transient
- transitory
- unfixed
- unstable
- volatile
adjective as in short-term
Weak matches
- acting
- ad hoc
- ad interim
- alternate
- Band-Aid
- brief
- changeable
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- fleeting
- for the time being
- fugacious
- fugitive
- impermanent
- make-do
- makeshift
- mortal
- overnight
- passing
- perishable
- pro tem
- pro tempore
- provisional
- provisory
- shifting
- short
- short-lived
- short-range
- slapdash
- stopgap
- substitute
- summary
- supply
- temp
- transient
- transitory
- unfixed
- unstable
- volatile
adjective as in smallish
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- babyish
- bantam
- brief
- dinky
- elfin
- embryonic
- fleeting
- hardly any
- hasty
- immature
- imperceptible
- inappreciable
- inconsiderable
- infant
- infinitesimal
- insufficient
- junior
- light
- Lilliputian
- limited
- meager
- microscopic
- mini
- miniature
- minute
- not big
- not large
- peanut
- petite
- scant
- short
- short-lived
- shrimpy
- shriveled
- skimpy
- slight
- small
- snub
- sparse
- stubby
- stunted
- teeny
- tiny
- toy
- truncated
- undeveloped
- wee
- wizened
- young
adjective as in ephemeral
Strongest matches
adjective as in evanescent
adjective as in fleeting
Strongest matches
adjective as in fly-by-night
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Example Sentences
My pretence of happiness was shortlived, for at the next moment I made another mistake.
This boldness was shortlived, for the Indian Massacre of 1622 tended to narrow the area under cultivation for that year.
In front of me I have a copy of the shortlived Daily Republican, which once was printed there.
Anarchy, therefore, is usually shortlived, and perishes of inanition.
Will you frame it in such a way that it must inevitably be shortlived?
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On this page you'll find 833 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shortlived, such as: insufficient, limited, meager, scant, slight, and bantam.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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