Perishable

3 definitions found

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

  Perishable \Per"ish*a*ble\, a. [F. p['e]rissable.]
     Liable to perish; subject to decay, destruction, or death;
     as, perishable goods; our perishable bodies.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  perishable
       adj : liable to perish; subject to destruction or death or decay;
             "this minute and perishable planet"; "perishable foods
             such as butter and fruit" [ant: {imperishable}]

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

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "perishable":
     brittle, capricious, changeable, corruptible, deciduous, dying,
     ephemeral, evanescent, fading, fickle, fleeting, flitting,
     fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive,
     impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, insubstantial,
     momentary, mortal, mutable, nondurable, nonpermanent, passing,
     short-lived, subject to death, temporal, temporary, transient,
     transitive, transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable,
     volatile