All transitory synonyms
tran·si·to·ry
T t adj transitory
- instantaneous — occurring, done, or completed in an instant: an instantaneous response.
- fugitive — a person who is fleeing, from prosecution, intolerable circumstances, etc.; a runaway: a fugitive from justice; a fugitive from a dictatorial regime.
- deciduous — A deciduous tree or bush is one that loses its leaves in the autumn every year.
- make-do — something that serves as a substitute, especially of an inferior or expedient nature: We had to get along with make-dos during the war.
- make do — something that serves as a substitute, especially of an inferior or expedient nature: We had to get along with make-dos during the war.
- hair-trigger — easily activated or set off; reacting immediately to the slightest provocation or cause: a hair-trigger temper.
- momentary — lasting but a moment; very brief; fleeting: a momentary glimpse.
- flasher — a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
- fleeting — swift; rapid: to be fleet of foot; a fleet horse.
- lamster — a fugitive from the law.
- band-aid — 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 — 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.
adjective transitory
- fugacious — fleeting; transitory: a sensational story with but a fugacious claim on the public's attention.
- impermanent — not permanent or enduring; transitory.
- elusive — Difficult to find, catch, or achieve.
- elusory — That tends to elude.
- flitting — to move lightly and swiftly; fly, dart, or skim along: bees flitting from flower to flower.
- ephemeral — An ephemeral plant.