Evanescent - English meaning

verb

Make or become less.

Usage examples:

The new law is expected to diminish the government's chances

verb

Present participle of diminish

Usage examples:

I don't want to diminish her achievements, but she did have a lot of help., these memories will not…

verb

To reduce or be reduced in size or importance

Usage examples:

I don't want to diminish her achievements, but she did have a lot of help., these memories will not…

verb

Cease to be visible.

Usage examples:

He disappeared into the trees

verb

Present participle of disappear

Usage examples:

The search was called off for the sailors who disappeared in the storm., i can't find my keys anywh…

verb

If people or things disappear, they go somewhere where they cannot be seen or found

Usage examples:

The search was called off for the sailors who disappeared in the storm., i can't find my keys anywh…

adjective

Gradually diminishing in size, amount, or strength.

Usage examples:

Dwindling resources

verb

Diminish gradually in size, amount, or strength.

Usage examples:

Traffic has dwindled to a trickle

adjective

Gradually becoming smaller in size or amount, or fewer in number

Usage examples:

She is one of a dwindling number of people who was alive in 1918., in baltimore the city's dwindlin…

adjective

Lasting for a very short time.

Usage examples:

Fashions are ephemeral: new ones regularly drive out the old

noun

An ephemeral plant.

Usage examples:

Ephemerals avoid the periods of drought as seeds

adjective

Lasting for only a short time

Usage examples:

Ephemeral fame

verb

Turn from liquid into vapour.

Usage examples:

Cook until most of the liquid has evaporated

verb

Present participle of evaporate

verb

To cause a liquid to change to a gas, especially by heating

Usage examples:

The high concentration of sugars forms a syrup when the sap evaporates., plants keep cool during th…

verb

Gradually grow faint and disappear.

Usage examples:

The light had faded and dusk was advancing

noun

The process of becoming less bright.

Usage examples:

The sun can cause colour fade

noun

A shot causing the ball to deviate to the right (or, for a left-handed golfer, the left)

Usage examples:

When they get to the 18th the ideal shot is a fade

adjective

Lasting for a very short time.

Usage examples:

For a fleeting moment i saw the face of a boy

verb

Move or pass quickly.

Usage examples:

A variety of expressions fleeted across his face

Lasting for a markedly brief time

adjective

Tending to disappear; fleeting.

Usage examples:

She was acutely conscious of her fugacious youth

adjective

Quick to disappear; not lasting very long

Usage examples:

Love's fugacious radiance

noun

A person who has escaped from captivity or is in hiding.

Usage examples:

Fugitives from justice

adjective

Quick to disappear; fleeting.

Usage examples:

The fugitive effects of light

noun

A person who is running away or hiding from the police or a dangerous situation

Usage examples:

Thousands of fugitives are fleeing from the war-torn area., fugitive from justice butch cassidy and…

adjective

Lasting for a very short time; brief.

Usage examples:

A momentary lapse of concentration

adjective

Lasting for a very short time

Usage examples:

A momentary hesitation

adjective

Going past.

Usage examples:

Passing cars

noun

The passage of something, especially time.

Usage examples:

With the passing of the years she had become a little eccentric

verb

Move or cause to move in a specified direction.

Usage examples:

He passed through towns and villages

adjective

Lasting only for a brief time

Usage examples:

He got angry easily, but his anger was always short-lived.

adjective

Happening, existing, or continuing for only a little time

Usage examples:

Short-term interest rates are going down.

noun

→  short run

Usage examples:

These risks are short-term and manageable., stability involves balancing short-term and long-term o…

adjective

Becoming smaller in size or amount.

Usage examples:

The shrinking market has provoked a massive price war

verb

Become or make smaller in size or amount.

Usage examples:

The workforce shrank to a thousand

adjective

Becoming smaller or less

Usage examples:

The shrinking workforce would have to support a growing number of retired people., rapidly/steadily…

noun

A temporary employee, typically an office worker who finds employment through an agency.

Usage examples:

After failing to land a job as a journalist, and brief stints as an office temp and clerk typist, b…

verb

Work as a temporary employee.

Usage examples:

Suzanne was temping as a secretary

abbreviation

Temperature.

Usage examples:

Went swimming—temp 73 degrees!

adjective

Lasting only for a short time; impermanent.

Usage examples:

A transient cold spell

noun

A person who is staying or working in a place for a short time only.

Usage examples:

The law had been applied to hotels and motels to collect a tax from transients, vacationers, and tr…

adjective

Lasting for only a short time; temporary

Usage examples:

The weakness was transient, and soon i was feeling strong again., transient workers come to pick ap…

adjective

Not permanent.

Usage examples:

Transitory periods of medieval greatness

adjective

Not permanent; temporary

Usage examples:

The transitory nature of life

adjective

Only lasting for a short period of time

Usage examples:

A growing proportion of the population are in a transitory stage between paid employment and old ag…

verb

Disappear suddenly and completely.

Usage examples:

Moira vanished without trace

adjective

Beginning to disappear

Usage examples:

They expressed concern about the city's current budget crisis and its vanishing work force., around…