Impermanent

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Impermanent \Im*per"ma*nent\, a.
     Not permanent.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  impermanent
       adj 1: not permanent; not lasting; "politics is an impermanent
              factor of life"- James Thurber; "impermanent palm
              cottages"; "a temperary arrangement"; "temporary
              housing" [syn: {temporary}] [ant: {permanent}]
       2: existing or enduring for a limited time only

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "impermanent":
     able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, alterable, alterative,
     brittle, capricious, changeable, checkered, corruptible, deciduous,
     dying, ephemeral, evanescent, ever-changing, fading, fickle,
     fleeting, flexible, flitting, fluid, fly-by-night, flying, fragile,
     frail, fugacious, fugitive, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant,
     insubstantial, kaleidoscopic, malleable, many-sided, metamorphic,
     mobile, modifiable, momentary, mortal, movable, mutable,
     nondurable, nonpermanent, nonuniform, passing, perishable,
     permutable, plastic, protean, proteiform, resilient, rubbery,
     short-lived, supple, temporal, temporary, transient, transitive,
     transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable, variable, volatile