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more transient

ADJECTIVE

temporary, brief

Synonyms

WEAK

changeable deciduous emigrating ephemeral evanescent flash fleeting flitting fly-by-night flying fugacious fugitive going by impermanent insubstantial migrating momentary moving passing provisional short short-lived short-term temporal transmigratory unstable vacating volatile

Antonyms

WEAK

enduring incessant lasting long-lasting neverending permanent persistent undying

ADJECTIVE

temporary

Synonyms

STRONGEST

ephemeral fleeting short-term transitory

STRONG

brief flash fly-by-night flying fugitive passing short temporal volatile

WEAK

changeable deciduous emigrating evanescent flitting fugacious going by impermanent insubstantial migrating momentary moving provisional short-lived transmigratory unstable vacating

Antonyms

STRONGEST

enduring lasting lengthy long long-lived permanent perpetual

Example Sentences

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They are more transient, more likely to be working part time and certainly unable to pay for their own health care.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 25, 2022

Your cells have elaborate machinery to fix mistakes in DNA, which must last a long time to be inherited, whereas RNA is effervescent and plays a more transient role in cellular life.

From Scientific American • Feb. 17, 2022

Outside the house, exposure might be more transient, or depending on where you live or what you’re doing, you might be masked up.

From Slate • Nov. 13, 2021

The point wouldn’t change, either, in a more transient district; there’s nothing particularly noble about being born in greater Washington.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2017

And what more transient than the image in a glass?

From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)