3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Fugacious \Fu*ga"cious\, a. [L. fugax, fugacis, from fugere: cf. F. fugace. See {Fugitive}.] 1. Flying, or disposed to fly; fleeing away; lasting but a short time; volatile. [1913 Webster] Much of its possessions is so hid, so fugacious, and of so uncertain purchase. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] 2. (Biol.) Fleeting; lasting but a short time; -- applied particularly to organs or parts which are short-lived as compared with the life of the individual. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: fugacious adj : enduring a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but at is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms" [syn: {ephemeral}, {passing}, {short-lived}, {transient}, {transitory}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 39 Moby Thesaurus words for "fugacious": brittle, capricious, changeable, corruptible, deciduous, dying, ephemeral, evanescent, fading, fickle, fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, fugitive, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, insubstantial, momentary, mortal, mutable, nondurable, nonpermanent, passing, perishable, short-lived, temporal, temporary, transient, transitive, transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable, volatile
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