Crossword-Solution: TRANSITORY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Transitory | a. | Continuing only for a short time; not enduring; fleeting; evanescent. |
We have 45 clues for the answer “TRANSITORY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| TIME passing | 1 answer |
| Not lasting | 1 answer |
| FUNGOUS | 1 answer |
| Short-lived | 7 answers |
| LIMITED by time | 10 answers |
| for the present | 13 answers |
| Temporarily | 15 answers |
| For now | 19 answers |
| meteoric | 23 answers |
| AT the moment | 24 answers |
| instantaneous | 25 answers |
| For the time being | 25 answers |
| at present | 29 answers |
| protem | 39 answers |
| flitting | 40 answers |
| disappearing | 40 answers |
| move fast | 40 answers |
| dissipating | 41 answers |
| gliding by | 41 answers |
| fugacious | 41 answers |
| Deciduous | 41 answers |
| visiting | 42 answers |
| speeding by | 42 answers |
| Stopgap | 42 answers |
| flashing by | 42 answers |
| Vanishing | 42 answers |
| nonce | 43 answers |
| perishable | 43 answers |
| discontinuous | 44 answers |
| Ebbing | 44 answers |
| migratory | 45 answers |
| Going by | 45 answers |
| evanescent | 47 answers |
| impermanent | 47 answers |
| Momentarily | 48 answers |
| momentary | 48 answers |
| to pass | 49 answers |
| Ephemeral | 51 answers |
| Going after | 53 answers |
| Swiftly | 53 answers |
| Temporal | 55 answers |
| Fugitive | 68 answers |
| Passing | 68 answers |
| fleeting | 73 answers |
| Flying | 76 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TRANSITORY (5)
Dimmesdale’s own sermon, on the Sabbath after his vigil—to barter the transitory pleasures of the world for the heavenly hope that was to assume brighter substance as life grew dark around her, and which would gild the utter gloom with final glory.
Therefore let pass, as they are transitory, The kingdoms of this world; I shall no more 210 Advise thee; gain them as thou canst, or not.
While some are pervasive and extensive in scope, others are limited and transitory, The role of man or woman is extensive, but that of customer or student is transitory.
Her scowl,—as the world, or such part of it as sometimes caught a transitory glimpse of her at the window, wickedly persisted in calling it,—her scowl had done Miss Hepzibah a very ill office, in establishing her character as an ill-tempered old maid; nor does it appear improbable that, by often gazing at herself in a dim looking-glass, and perpetually encountering her own frown with its ghostly sphere, she had been led to interpret the expression almost as unjustly as the world did.
Many a night he vaguely and unhappily wandered there, when wine had brought no transitory gladness to him; many a dreary daybreak revealed his solitary figure lingering there, and still lingering there when the first beams of the sun brought into strong relief, removed beauties of architecture in spires of churches and lofty buildings, as perhaps the quiet time brought some sense of better things, else forgotten and unattainable, into his mind.
Quotes with TRANSITORY (3)
One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases, and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back.
The event of falling in love is of such a nature that we are right to reject as intolerable the idea that it should be transitory. In one high bound it has overleaped the massive of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being. Spontaneously and without effort we have fulfilled the law (towards one person) by loving our neighbour as ourselves. It is an imag…
It is, therefore, a great source of virtue for the practiced mind to learn, bit by bit, first to change about in visible and transitory things, so that afterwards it may be possible to leave them behind altogether. The man who finds his homeland sweet is still a tender beginner; he to whom every soil is as his native one is already strong; but he is perfect to whom the entire world is as a foreign land. The tender soul has fixed his love on one spot in the world; the strong m…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1983–2000).