Crossword-Solution: EPHEMERAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ephemeral | a. | Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower. |
| Ephemeral | a. | Short-lived; existing or continuing for a short time only. |
| Ephemeral | n. | Anything lasting but a day, or a brief time; an ephemeral plant, insect, etc. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EPHEMERAL (5)
Altogether she stood as the last person in the world to be knocked over by a game of chess, because too ephemeral-looking to play one.
But up to this time, his work had been fugitive, ephemeral, a note here and there, heard, appreciated, and forgotten.
How should she have distrusted her powers? Her beauty itself was not the mere ephemeral possession it might have been in the hands of inexperience: her skill in enhancing it, the care she took of it, the use she made of it, seemed to give it a kind of permanence.
But is it gain, my poet? for I had thought it to be loss." "With age we gain the priceless certainty that sorrow and injustice are ephemeral.
The stranger had merely shown one of those sudden and ephemeral bursts of form that occasionally are witnessed in every branch of sport; but he couldn't last against such a man as the “white hope”!--they looked for a knock-out any minute now.
Quotes with EPHEMERAL (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.
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.
Not all deceptions are palatable. Untruths are too easy to come by, too quickly exploded, too cheap and ephemeral to give lasting comfort. Mundus vult decipi, but there is a hierarchy of deceptions. Near the bottom of the ladder is journalism: a steady stream of irresponsible distortions that most people find refreshing although on the morning after, or at least within a week, it will be stale and flat. On a higher level we find fictions that men eagerly believe, regardless o…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1999–2023).