All short-lived synonyms
short-lived
S s adj short-lived
- fly-by-night β not reliable or responsible, especially in business; untrustworthy: a fly-by-night operation.
- like crazy β mentally deranged; demented; insane.
- fugacious β fleeting; transitory: a sensational story with but a fugacious claim on the public's attention.
- decomposable β to separate or resolve into constituent parts or elements; disintegrate: The bacteria decomposed the milk into its solid and liquid elements.
- alacritous β cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness: We accepted the invitation with alacrity.
- fugitive β a person who is fleeing, from prosecution, intolerable circumstances, etc.; a runaway: a fugitive from justice; a fugitive from a dictatorial regime.
- destructible β capable of being or liable to be destroyed
- deciduous β A deciduous tree or bush is one that loses its leaves in the autumn every year.
- barrelling β a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
- make-do β something that serves as a substitute, especially of an inferior or expedient nature: We had to get along with make-dos during the war.
- curtate β shortened
- little β small in size; not big; not large; tiny: a little desk in the corner of the room.
- make do β something that serves as a substitute, especially of an inferior or expedient nature: We had to get along with make-dos during the war.
- mini β miniskirt.
- momentary β lasting but a moment; very brief; fleeting: a momentary glimpse.
- fleet-footed β able to run fast.
- flasher β a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
- fleeting β swift; rapid: to be fleet of foot; a fleet horse.
- ad interim β for the meantime; for the present
- lamster β a fugitive from the law.
- in nothing flat β no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
- double-quick β very quick or rapid.
- band-aid β A Band-Aid is a small piece of sticky tape that you use to cover small cuts or wounds on your body.
- for the time being β the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- like mad β mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented.
- in a nutshell β the shell of a nut.
adjective short-lived
- fast β moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast horse; a fast pain reliever; a fast thinker.
- evanescent β Soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; quickly fading or disappearing.
- whirlwind β any of several relatively small masses of air rotating rapidly around a more or less vertical axis and advancing simultaneously over land or sea, as a dust devil, tornado, or waterspout.
- ephemeral β An ephemeral plant.
- decurtate β Shortened, curtailed.