fugacious

American  

[fyoo-gey-shuhs] / fyuˈgeɪ ʃəs /

adjective

1. fleeting; transient.

   a sensational story with but a fugacious claim on the public's attention.

2. Botany. falling or fading early.

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fugacious British  

/ fjuːˈɡeɪʃəs /

adjective

1. passing quickly away; transitory; fleeting

2. botany lasting for only a short time

   fugacious petals

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Other Word Forms

• fugaciously adverb
• fugaciousness noun
• fugacity noun

Etymology

Origin of fugacious

1625–35; < Latin fugāci- (stem of fugāx apt to flee, fleet, derivative of fugere to flee + -ous

Example Sentences

The Reporter, on the other hand, calls it "a fugacious bit of whimsy that can only be judged minor Woody Allen".

From The Guardian • Jul. 18, 2014

P. globose then convex, dry, satiny, white, soon tinged yellow or reddish-yellow; g. broad, brown; stem with a turbinate bulb, white, suffused with reddish-yellow; flesh white, ring fugacious; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Stamens 4, or rarely 2, in all or some flowers with long and weak exserted filaments, and fugacious 2-celled anthers.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Ring narrow, scarcely perceptible above the middle of the stem; remnants of the veil adhering to the margin of the cap as a fugacious web.Fig.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas

P. 5-9 cm. oblique or subcircular, hard, whitish with brownish spot-like squamules, flesh white then yellowish; g. decur. not anastomosing behind, white tinged yellow; s. 2-3 cm. sublateral, ring fugacious, torn; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George