Crossword-Solution: EVANESCENT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Evanescent | a. | Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; vanishing; fleeting; as, evanescent joys. |
| Evanescent | a. | Vanishing from notice; imperceptible. |
We have 54 clues for the answer “EVANESCENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| tending to vanish like vapor | 1 answer |
| Tending to fade from sight | 1 answer |
| Tending to fade away. | 1 answer |
| Not here for long | 1 answer |
| Not exactly carved in stone | 1 answer |
| dissolving | 2 answers |
| melting | 5 answers |
| Infinitesimal | 17 answers |
| protem | 39 answers |
| disappearing | 40 answers |
| flitting | 40 answers |
| dissipating | 41 answers |
| Deciduous | 41 answers |
| gliding by | 41 answers |
| fugacious | 41 answers |
| visiting | 42 answers |
| Vanishing | 42 answers |
| speeding by | 42 answers |
| flashing by | 42 answers |
| Stopgap | 42 answers |
| perishable | 43 answers |
| nonce | 43 answers |
| discontinuous | 44 answers |
| Ebbing | 44 answers |
| Going by | 45 answers |
| migratory | 45 answers |
| transitory | 46 answers |
| impermanent | 47 answers |
| Momentarily | 48 answers |
| momentary | 48 answers |
| to pass | 49 answers |
| Ephemeral | 51 answers |
| Inconsiderable | 52 answers |
| Swiftly | 53 answers |
| Fading | 54 answers |
| provisional | 54 answers |
| Temporal | 55 answers |
| Makeshift | 60 answers |
| dying | 61 answers |
| decreasing | 62 answers |
| departing | 62 answers |
| interim | 66 answers |
| Hasty | 66 answers |
| Fugitive | 68 answers |
| receding | 68 answers |
| Declining | 70 answers |
| Limited | 72 answers |
| Pass through | 73 answers |
| fleeting | 73 answers |
| imperceptible | 73 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EVANESCENT (5)
Where, however, happy circumstance permits its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death—that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, beside which the passion usually called by the name is evanescent as steam.
All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent; nor does nature adorn the human ruin with blossoms of new beauty, that have their roots and proper nutriment only in the chinks and crevices of decay, as she sows wall-flowers over the ruined fortress of Ticonderoga.
What, then, would it avail the reader to know their names, or the evanescent symbols of their martial rank! Now, however, no whit anticipating the oblivion which awaited their names and feats, the champions advanced through the lists, restraining their fiery steeds, and compelling them to move slowly, while, at the same time, they exhibited their paces, together with the grace and dexterity of the riders.
Shrinking looked they like those who wade through a stream in winter; irresolute like those who are afraid of all around them; grave like a guest (in awe of his host); evanescent like ice that is melting away; unpretentious like wood that has not been fashioned into anything; vacant like a valley, and dull like muddy water.
Walking to the taffrail, I was in time to make out, on the very edge of a darkness thrown by a towering black mass like the very gateway of Erebus--yes, I was in time to catch an evanescent glimpse of my white hat left behind to mark the spot where the secret sharer of my cabin and of my thoughts, as though he were my second self, had lowered himself into the water to take his punishment: a free man, a proud swimmer striking out for a new destiny.
Quotes with EVANESCENT (3)
She could now be sad without losing a jot of hope. Nay, rather, the least approach of sadness would begin at once to wake her hope. She regretted nothing that had come, nothing that had gone. She believed more and more that not anything worth having is ever lost; that even the most evanescent shades of feeling are safe for those who grow after their true nature, toward that for which they were made — in other and higher words, after the will of God.
Feelings and emotions as well as thoughts and opinions are evanescent; they change over time because they reflect our transient being. Feelings and emotions are judgments that spring from the hidden source of the unconscious mind, and only take on power whenever the conscious mind acknowledges them, and then chooses to convey an idea in some format that shares the rhythm of a person’s own being with another person. Unuttered thoughts and inexpressible feelings experience a sh…
Night-time is being brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before the last haunted dreams, the last of the fog, those spectral and evanescent residues, have faded away.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1956–2015).