Dictionary

fugacious en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /fjuːˈɡeɪ.ʃəs/ (UK, US)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fugācius (whence -acious), comparative of fugāciter (“evasively, fleetingly”), from fugāx (“transitory, fleeting”), from fugiō (“to flee”).

Meanings

1. Fleeting, fading quickly, transient.
   • Watering of the eye, conjunctival congestion, distinct catarrhal conjunctivitis, and deep-seated scleral congestions, sometimes fugacious, and often accompanied by intense headache […] 1916, George Edmund De Schweinitz, Diseases of the Eye, page 589:
   • It may be that Redford's fugacious nature is not so mysterious, that it is studded in the artwork of the labs and the very stones of Sundance. 2011, Michael Feeney Callan, Robert Redford: The Biography, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page xvii:
   • "[… 1916, James Branch Cabell, The Certain Hour:
   • Restless, shifting, fugacious as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population of the red brick district of the lower West Side. Homeless, they have a hundred homes. 1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Furnished Room”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, →OCLC:

Forms

Deriveds

fugaciousness · fugaciously

Relateds

fugitive · fugacity · fugue

Translations (26)

ja 早く散る (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient) · sv flyktig (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient) · ro efemer (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient) · ro trecător (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient) · pl przejściowy (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient) · fi katoavainen (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient) · nl vlietend (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient) · ja 儚い (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient) · ru мимолётный (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient) · hy կարճատեւ (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient) · de flüchtig (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient) · hy վաղանցիկ (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient) · nl vluchtig (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient) · bg краткотраен (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient) · cmn 無常的 /无常的 (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient) · bg мимолетен (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient) · ru скороте́чный (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient) · hy անցողիկ (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient) · es fugaz (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient) · pl tymczasowy (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient) · pl efemeryczny (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient) · pt fugaz (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient) · cmn 易逃逸的 (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient) · sv förgänglig (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient) · ro care zboară (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient) · cmn 難捕捉的 /难捕捉的 (Fleeting, fading quickly, transient)