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111little — adj 1. small, tiny, teeny, pint size, wee, mini, short, snub; All Baby Talk. teeny weeny, itty bitty, itsy bitsy, itty, teensy weensy; Lilliputian, elfin, like Tom Thumb, pygmy, Inf. peewee, baby, child s toy, bantam; undersized, underweight,… …
112mortal — adj 1. temporal, transitory, fleeting, flitting, transient, passing; ephemeral, short lived, temporary, impermanent, Med. monohemerous; evanescent, momentary, fugitive, fugacious; perishable, caducous. 2. human, earthborn, earthly; terrestrial,… …
113mushroom — n 1. toadstool, puffball, coral fungus; champignon, chanterelle, morel, truffle, meadow mushroom, field mushroom. adj 2. mushroomlike, mushroomy. 3. provisional, temporary, occasional; short lived, ephemeral, transitory, fugacious, transient,… …
114passing — adj 1. elapsing, lapsing, expiring, departing, dying; dwindling, disappearing, fading, evaporating, fading away; slipping away, flitting, streaming, gliding by, going by, running its course, becoming a thing of the past, running out; proceeding,… …
115perishable — adj destructible, decayable, decomposable, biodegradable; undurable, fragile, frail, weak, delicate; impermanent, transitory, caducous, fugacious, transient, temporary, temporal; momentary, short lived, ephemeral, evanescent, volatile, passing,… …
116quick — adj 1. prompt, immediate, sudden, instantaneous, expeditious; rapid, speedy, swift, fast, fleet; express, light footed, nimble footed, winged; flying, hurried, precipitate, headlong; hasty, cursory, summary, perfunctory. 2. brief, fleeting,… …
117short-lived — adj momentary, temporary, of brief duration, impermanent, mortal, unenduring, brief, fleeting, passing, fading, transitory, transient, fugacious, caducous, deciduous, Both Med. monohemer ous, monemerous; evanescent, ephemeral, mercurial, volatile …
118temporary — adj 1. passing, impermanent, transient, unenduring, perishable, mortal; transitory, ephemeral, fleeting, flitting, evanescent, fading, fugacious; here today and gone tomorrow, fly by night, fugitive, flash in the pan; brief, short, short termed,… …
119transient — adj transitory, impermanent, temporary, temporal, fly by night; brief, short, short lived, momentary, here today and gone tomorrow; ephemeral, evanescent, volatile, passing, fleeting, meteoric; fugitive, fugacious, fading, flitting, vanishing;… …
120elusive — [adj] evasive, mysterious ambiguous, baffling, cagey, deceitful, deceptive, difficult to catch, elusory, equivocal, evanescent, fallacious, fleeting, fraudulent, fugacious, fugitive, greasy, illusory, imponderable, incomprehensible, indefinable,… …
