transitory
Americanadjective
-
not lasting, enduring, permanent, or eternal.
-
lasting only a short time; brief; short-lived; temporary.
- Antonyms:
- permanent
adjective
Related Words
See temporary.
Other Word Forms
- transitorily adverb
- transitoriness noun
- untransitorily adverb
- untransitoriness noun
- untransitory adjective
Etymology
Origin of transitory
First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English transitorie, from Late Latin trānsitōrius “fleeting” ( transit, -tory 1 ); replacing Middle English transitoire, from Middle French, from Late Latin, as above
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Today’s game is far too transitory and transactional, its highlights less iconic.
Yet one of Ms. Lewin’s main arguments is that writing gets done in transitory and chaotic spaces, too: in cafes, at kitchen tables, on the train and amid a fair amount of clutter and detritus.
Yet what Fed officials don’t want is to “make the transitory mistake again,” he said.
From MarketWatch
“No one wants to repeat the mistake of the 2021 transitory inflation call,” he noted, referring to the Fed’s decision to keep rates low even though inflation was rising.
From MarketWatch
“If this ends up being another commodity shock around the world, do we really want to do another transitory 2.0?”
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
