Synonym: ephemeral, fugacious, passing, short-lived, transient. Similar words: transit, transition, expository, repository, suppository, transient, transience, intransigent. Meaning: [trænsɪ'tɔrɪnɪs /-'trɪ] adj. lasting a very short time.
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(1) These feelings tend to be transitory.
(2) Most teenage romances are transitory.
(3) The harsh measures of the transitory period are expected to lower the standard of living for about 20 percent of the population.
(4) Books like these contain much music which is transitory but include insufficient hymnody from the traditional repertoire.
(5) Whether such a remark represents transitory frustration or deep disillusionment is not always easy to tell.
(6) This is probably due to the relatively transitory nature of what they name.
(7) It is a transitory work which lays the groundwork for themes and styles found in the theater sixty years later.
(8) The benefits are transitory, wearing off as the alcohol is filtered out of the body.
(9) Transitory, a panacea to stop the wail of the poor muddled infant: one that didn't even work for long.
(10) We hope this hot weather will be transitory.
(11) Never use transitory dialogs as error messages or confirmations.
(12) That is transitory or semipersistent in its vector.
(13) Love is transitory but it is eternal.
(14) They are of a partial and transitory nature.
(15) Of these patients[sentencedict.com], one experienced transitory extrapyramidal symptoms and fluctuating impairment of consciousness (from somnolence to coma) for 6 months.
(16) The current situation: Transitory the fate that is numerous network a favourite by sb in power.
(17) In the final analysis, most of life's joys are transitory.
(18) But healthy, durable enterprises refuse to pander to the transitory whims of their clienteles.
(19) Given that these change over time, the dominance of the industry by a certain nationality of institutions may be transitory.
(20) Workers face the signal extraction problem of deciding whether the increase in real wages is transitory or lasting.
(21) This departs from the measure based on lifetime incomes, on account of systematic life-cycle factors and of transitory variation in incomes.
(22) As she tilted her face upwards to answer, her bone structure was thrown into transitory relief.
(23) Such a description might sound high-flown for a small, transitory occasion.
(24) And even for the prevailing types most precepts prove transitory.
(25) Relativism is not an attractive proposition to anyone, least of all philosophers, because everything becomes so uncertain and transitory.
(26) Both measured income and measured consumption, the theory suggests, contain a permanent and a transitory element.
(27) But I would like this life which moves and yearns in me, to be able itself to attain to comeliness, though but in transitory performance.
(28) Paxson, Christina H. "Using Weather Variability to Estimate the Response of Savings to Transitory Income in Thailand. " American Economic Review 82, no. 1 (1992): 15-33.
(29) Those with a higher permanent income (education, household assets) are more likely to have a computer at home, but there is no effect of transitory income (unemployment).
(30) Telling rich people that we'll keep their taxes low for a couple more years is, for them, a transitory income gain; they'll save the bulk of it.
More similar words: transit, transition, expository, repository, suppository, transient, transience, intransigent, translator, intransigence, visitor, auditory, territory, dormitory, inquisitor, premonitory, traitor, transform, transmit, transfer, transfuse, transport, transcend, transpire, translate, transpose, transmute, trajectory, transparent, transfixed.