Fleeting
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

4 letters

CURT
Brief and to the point; effectively cut short; "a crisp retort"; "a response so curt as to be almost rude"; "the laconic reply; `yes'"; "short and terse and easy to understand"

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TERSE
Brief and to the point; effectively cut short; "a crisp retort"; "a response so curt as to be almost rude"; "the laconic reply; `yes'"; "short and terse and easy to understand"

HASTY
Excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell"

FRAIL
A basket for holding dried fruit (especially raisins or figs)

GRUFF
Deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson

DYING
The time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes"

BLUNT
Used of a knife or other blade; not sharp; "a blunt instrument"

BRIEF
A condensed written summary or abstract

SHORT
(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory"

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SNIPPY

MORTAL
A human being; "there was too much for one person to do"

FLYING
An instance of traveling by air; "flying was still an exciting adventure for him"

FICKLE
Marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections"

FADING
Weakening in force or intensity; "attenuation in the volume of the sound"

CRUSTY
Brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply"

ABRUPT
Surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner; "an abrupt reply"

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SHADOWY
Filled with shade; "the shady side of the street"; "the surface of the pond is dark and shadowed"; "we sat on rocks in a shadowy cove"; "cool umbrageous woodlands"

PASSING
Allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily; "a passing grade"

MUTABLE
Capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature; "a mutable substance"; "the mutable ways of fortune"; "mutable weather patterns"; "a mutable foreign policy"

MELTING
The process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid; "the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster"; "the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours"

LECONIC

LACONIC
Brief and to the point; effectively cut short; "a crisp retort"; "a response so curt as to be almost rude"; "the laconic reply; `yes'"; "short and terse and easy to understand"

FRAGILE
Easily broken or damaged or destroyed; "a kite too delicate to fly safely"; "fragile porcelain plates"; "fragile old bones"; "a frail craft"

ELUSIVE
Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"

BRITTLE
Having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal"

BRUSQUE
Marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him"

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FUGITIVE
Someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice

TEMPORAL
Of this earth or world; "temporal joys"; "our temporal existence"

VOLATILE
Liable to lead to sudden change or violence; "an explosive issue"; "a volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation"

UNSTABLE
Disposed to psychological variability; "his rather unstable religious convictions"

SUCCINCT
Briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject"

SNIPPETY

METEORIC
Pertaining to or consisting of meteors or meteoroids; "meteoric shower"; "meteoric impacts"

FLITTING

FLEETING
Lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse"

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VANISHING
A sudden disappearance from sight

UNDURABLE

TEMPORARY
A worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary basis

IMPULSIVE
Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; "a hotheaded decision"; "liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers"; "an impetuous display of spending and gambling"; "madcap escapades"; (`brainish' is archaic)

IMPETUOUS
Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; "a hotheaded decision"; "liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers"; "an impetuous display of spending and gambling"; "madcap escapades"; (`brainish' is archaic)

FUGACIOUS
Lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but it is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms"

DECIDUOUS
(of plants and shrubs) shedding foliage at the end of the growing season

TRANSIENT
(physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load

MOMENTARY
Lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse"

EPHEMERAL
Anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form

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TRANSITORY
Lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but it is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms"

EVANESCENT
Tending to vanish like vapor; "evanescent beauty"

UNENDURING

TRANSITIVE
A verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical

SHORTLIVED

PERISHABLE
Food that will decay rapidly if not refrigerated

NONDURABLE

INTANGIBLE
Assets that are saleable though not material or physical

INCONSTANT
Likely to change frequently often without apparent or cogent reason; variable; "inconstant affections"; "an inconstant lover"; "swear not by...the inconstant moon"- Shakespeare

FLYBYNIGHT

DISSOLVING
The process of going into solution; "the dissolving of salt in water"

CHANGEABLE
Such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change; "changeable behavior"; "changeable moods"; "changeable prices"

CAPRICIOUS
Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; "a capricious refusal"; "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"; "the victim of whimsical persecutions"

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PERFUNCTORY
Hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy"

IMPERMANENT
Existing or enduring for a limited time only

EVAPORATING

CORRUPTIBLE
Capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer"

COMPENDIOUS
Briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject"

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MOMENTANEOUS
Lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse"

NONPERMANENT

DISAPPEARING
The act of leaving secretly or without explanation

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SHORTANDSWEET
Dealt with very quickly; to the point; "the conference was short and sweet"; "make your statement short and sweet"

INSUBSTANTIAL
Lacking in nutritive value; "the jejune diets of the very poor"