Ephemeral

Word EPHEMERAL
Character 9
Hyphenation e phem er al
Pronunciations /əˈfɛ.mə.ɹəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Ephemeral"

What do we mean by ephemeral?

Lasting for a markedly brief time. adjective

Having a short lifespan or a short annual period of aboveground growth. Used especially of plants. adjective

Something, especially a plant, that is ephemeral. noun

In zoology, lasting but one day; ephemeric; ephemerous.

Hence Existing or continuing for a very short time only; short-lived; transitory.

Also, rarely, ephemeric.

Synonyms Transient, fleeting, evanescent.

Anything which lasts or lives but for a day or for a very short time, as certain insects. noun

Anything lasting but a day, or a brief time; an ephemeral plant, insect, etc. noun

Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal. adjective

Short-lived; existing or continuing for a short time only. adjective

One of a group of neuropterous insects, belonging to the genus Ephemera and many allied genera, which live in the adult or winged state only for a short time. The larvæ are aquatic; -- called also day fly and May fly. adjective

Something which lasts for a short period of time. noun

Lasting for a short period of time. adjective

Existing for only one day, as with some flowers, insects, and diseases. adjective

Usually dry, but filling with water for brief periods during and after precipitation. adjective

Anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form noun

Lasting a very short time adjective

Something which lasts for a short period of time.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Ephemeral

The word "ephemeral" in example sentences

When your entire brand is built on the temporary, fleeting, and inevitably obsolete currency of youthful physical beauty, sexual allure, and cultural status, the word "ephemeral" comes to mind. ❋ Lorraine Devon Wilke (2011)

How, then, with that kind of history, do you think the government will fare attempting to prevent the flow of something so ephemeral is “electronic bits” around the world? ❋ Unknown (2010)

That moment where you know something profound and ephemeral is happening and you are not just the witness, put part of the action, the experience, absorbing every moment into every cell. ❋ Unknown (2008)

That moment where you know something profound and ephemeral is happening and [...] ❋ Unknown (2008)

It was a place in which happiness could only break through in short ephemeral bursts, briefly streaking across our skies like a dying comet. ❋ Unknown (2004)

With these concerns on his mind, Kant now supplements "voice" with the further hypothesis that aesthetic experience, far from being something ephemeral, is in essence "contemplative" and therefore invested in its own prolongation: ❋ Unknown (1999)

And using the word ephemeral in its strict sense, Don Marquis is unquestionably the cleverest of our ephemeral philosophers. ❋ Christopher Morley (1923)

In so doing, the goodness which would be ephemeral is embalmed; the examples worthy of perpetual imitation are kept as ever-burning lights in the darkness of the world. ❋ Unknown (1865)

A popularity based solely on immediacy is by definition ephemeral; if the plays' success derived from their ability to speak to a specific zeitgeist, this also meant they dated very quickly. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Often drawn to what could be called ephemeral materials -- one of the best-known Arte Povera figures, Piero Manzoni, notoriously canned and sold his own excrement in the early 1960s -- the movement's artists were as humorous as the minimalists were solemn, as idiosyncratic as the American conceptualists were dogmatic. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This part of our moving literature is what is called ephemeral, and properly so; but no stigma necessarily attaches to the name. ❋ Arthur E. Bostwick (N/A)

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