ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsTtransitory
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transitory
Meaning: lasting for only a short time
transitory in a sentence
How transitory is used in real sentences:
The economist argued that the price spike was merely transitory.
The advisor reminded her clients that market downturns are usually transitory, urging them not to panic and sell their shares.
“Yet each apparent course of the Rio Grande could be transitory, for floods could erase a bend within a season and cut a new channel across settled ground.”
— from the passage Where the River Moved
Synonyms for transitory
Other words for transitory — fleeting, temporary and momentary — carry the same meaning.
Antonyms of transitory
Words that mean the opposite of transitory:
- permanent
- lasting
- enduring
Where it comes from
From Latin transire 'to go across, pass'
Memory hook
TRANSITORY sounds like 'TRANSIT' — like a bus passing through, here and gone.
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