most 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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Since then, he has developed, in this most transient of audiences, a fan base.

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2014

Football is the most transient of all sports, and players will adjust.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2011

But our joy was of the most transient nature.

From Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1 by Hunt, Henry

We have been there incessantly, and I've never seen him ruffled except two or three times, and then he was tired and not himself, and it was a most transient thing.

From Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay by Fay, Amy

What the world with common consent called Reality, seemed ever to him the most crude and obvious, the most transient, the most blatant un-Reality.

From The Centaur by Blackwood, Algernon