Thesaurus / shortlived
FEEDBACK- as inlittle
- as inmomentary
- as inpassing
- as inperishable
- as inshort
- as inshort-lived
- as inswift
- as intemporal
- as intemporary
- as intransient/transitory
- as involatile
- as intransient
- as inbrief
- as intransitory
- as inad interim
- as infugacious
- as inpro tem
- as inshort-range
- as inshort-term
- as insmallish
- as inephemeral
- as inevanescent
- as infleeting
- as infly-by-night
- as infugitive
synonyms for shortlived
synonyms for shortlived
- insufficient
- limited
- meager
- scant
- slight
- Lilliputian
- bantam
- brief
- diminutive
- dinky
- infant
- infinitesimal
- junior
- light
- mini
- miniature
- minute
- peanut
- petite
- short
- snub
- toy
- wee
- young
- babyish
- cramped
- elfin
- embryonic
- fleeting
- hardly any
- hasty
- immature
- imperceptible
- inappreciable
- inconsiderable
- microscopic
- not big
- not large
- short-lived
- shrimpy
- shriveled
- skimpy
- sparse
- stubby
- stunted
- teeny
- tiny
- truncated
- undersized
- undeveloped
- wizened
- short-lived
- temporary
- transitory
- cursory
- dreamlike
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- flashing
- flitting
- flying
- fugacious
- fugitive
- gone in flash
- hasty
- impermanent
- impulsive
- instantaneous
- in wink of an eye
- like lightning
- passing
- quick
- shifting
- short
- spasmodic
- summary
- transient
- vanishing
- volatile
- cursory
- fleeting
- superficial
- ephemeral
- fugitive
- glancing
- quick
- shallow
- short
- slight
- temporary
- transient
- evanescent
- fugacious
- hasty
- impermanent
- momentary
- short-lived
- transitory
- abbreviated
- brief
- crisp
- precise
- shortened
- terse
- bare
- compressed
- condensed
- curtailed
- decreased
- diminished
- fleeting
- lessened
- little
- summarized
- summary
- aphoristic
- boiled down
- breviloquent
- compendiary
- compendious
- concise
- curtate
- cut short
- cut to the bone
- decurtate
- epigrammatic
- in a nutshell
- laconic
- momentary
- not protracted
- pithy
- sententious
- short and sweet
- short-term
- succinct
- undersized
- unprolonged
- unsustained
- brief
- ephemeral
- fleeting
- momentary
- short-term
- temporary
- transitory
- deciduous
- evanescent
- fly-by-night
- fugacious
- fugitive
- gone in a heartbeat
- impermanent
- of short duration
- over in a heartbeat
- passing
- quick
- short
- short-haul
- short-run
- transient
- abrupt
- expeditious
- hasty
- nimble
- quick
- rapid
- speedy
- sudden
- unexpected
- cracking
- express
- fleet
- flying
- precipitate
- prompt
- ready
- screaming
- short
- spanking
- alacritous
- barrelling
- breakneck
- double-quick
- fleet-footed
- headlong
- hurried
- in nothing flat
- like crazy
- like mad
- on the double
- pronto
- shaking a leg
- short-lived
- snappy
- speedball
- supersonic
- winged
- transitory
- ephemeral
- fugitive
- passing
- temporary
- transient
- chronological
- evanescent
- fleeting
- fugacious
- impermanent
- of time
- short-lived
- brief
- interim
- limited
- makeshift
- momentary
- provisional
- short-lived
- transitory
- acting
- alternate
- ephemeral
- fugitive
- impermanent
- make-do
- mortal
- passing
- perishable
- shifting
- short
- stopgap
- substitute
- summary
- supply
- temp
- transient
- volatile
- ad hoc
- ad interim
- Band-Aid
- changeable
- evanescent
- fleeting
- for the time being
- fugacious
- overnight
- pro tem
- pro tempore
- provisory
- slapdash
- unfixed
- unstable
- 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
- buoyant
- capricious
- elusive
- erratic
- fickle
- resilient
- ticklish
- unsettled
- unstable
- elastic
- ephemeral
- fugitive
- gay
- imponderable
- light
- transient
- variable
- airy
- effervescent
- expansive
- fleeting
- flighty
- flippant
- frivolous
- fugacious
- gaseous
- giddy
- impermanent
- inconsistent
- inconstant
- lively
- lubricious
- mercurial
- momentary
- playful
- short-lived
- sprightly
- subtle
- temperamental
- transitory
- unsteady
- up-and-down
- vaporous
- whimsical
- ephemeral
- fleeting
- short-term
- transitory
- brief
- flash
- fly-by-night
- flying
- fugitive
- passing
- short
- temporal
- volatile
- changeable
- deciduous
- emigrating
- evanescent
- flitting
- fugacious
- going by
- impermanent
- insubstantial
- migrating
- momentary
- moving
- provisional
- short-lived
- transmigratory
- unstable
- vacating
- concise
- fleeting
- momentary
- quick
- short-lived
- swift
- temporary
- curtailed
- ephemeral
- fast
- little
- passing
- transient
- hasty
- instantaneous
- meteoric
- short-term
- transitory
- brief
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- fleeting
- impermanent
- momentary
- passing
- short-lived
- temporal
- temporary
- transient
- 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
- tactical
- 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
- interim
- limited
- momentary
- 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
- cramped
- diminutive
- undersized
- 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
- fleeting
- short-lived
- transitory
- brief
- fugitive
- short
- temporary
- transient
- volatile
- episodic
- evanescent
- flitting
- fugacious
- impermanent
- unenduring
- cursory
- ephemeral
- fading
- momentary
- short-lived
- sudden
- transitory
- flitting
- flying
- passing
- short
- vanishing
- evanescent
- flash in the pan
- fugacious
- fugitive
- impermanent
- meteoric
- temporary
- volatile
- brief
- cowboy
- ephemeral
- passing
- temporary
- disreputable
- dubious
- evanescent
- fleeting
- here-today-gone-tomorrow
- impermanent
- irresponsible
- momentary
- not to be relied upon
- not to be trusted
- questionable
- shady
- shifty
- short-lived
- slimy
- slippery
- treacherous
- trustless
- undependable
- unprofessional
- unreliable
- unsure
- untrustworthy
- elusive
- wanted
- brief
- criminal
- ephemeral
- flying
- passing
- short
- temporary
- volatile
- wandering
- avoiding
- errant
- erratic
- escaping
- evading
- evanescent
- fleeting
- flitting
- fugacious
- hot
- impermanent
- lamster
- momentary
- moving
- on the lam
- planetary
- running away
- short-lived
- transitory
- unstable
antonyms for shortlived
MOST RELEVANT
- certain
- constant
- definite
- dependable
- reliable
- stable
- steady
- sure
- difficult
- enduring
- lasting
- permanent
- calm
- firm
- steadfast
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How to use shortlived in a sentence
My pretence of happiness was shortlived, for at the next moment I made another mistake.
THE WOMAN THOU GAVEST MEHALL CAINEThis boldness was shortlived, for the Indian Massacre of 1622 tended to narrow the area under cultivation for that year.
TOBACCO IN COLONIAL VIRGINIAMELVIN HERNDONIn front of me I have a copy of the shortlived Daily Republican, which once was printed there.
THE STORY OF THE ROME, WATERTOWN, AND OGDENSBURG RAILROADEDWARD HUNGERFORDAnarchy, therefore, is usually shortlived, and perishes of inanition.
HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE FALL OF WOLSEY TO THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH. VOL. II.JAMES ANTHONY FROUDEWill you frame it in such a way that it must inevitably be shortlived?
THE MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS AND SPEECHES OF LORD MACAULAY, VOL. 4 (OF 4)THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAYHis hostility was strong, but it was shortlived: his enmity was vigorous, but it had no memory.
THE LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF SIR ISAAC BROCKFERDINAND BROCK TUPPERBy-and-by the shortlived sunshine died away, and the sparrows left.
FANW.H. HUDSON (AKA HENRY HARFORD)But the spark of intense and passionate emotion was as shortlived as it was vivid.
SALEM CHAPEL, V.1/2MRS. OLIPHANTRipperda had returned in triumph to Madrid; but his success was shortlived.
A HISTORY OF ENGLAND, PERIOD III.REV. J. FRANCK BRIGHTThe impression made by his words was immediate but shortlived.
ULYSSESJAMES JOYCE