evanescent
Meaning of evanescent
adjective
- soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; quickly fading or disappearing.
the evanescent Arctic summer
- denoting a field or wave which extends into a region where it cannot propagate and whose amplitude therefore decreases with distance.
early 18th century (in the sense ‘almost imperceptible’): from Latin evanescent- ‘disappearing’, from the verb evanescere (see evanesce).
Information about evanescent
- It is an adjective.
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CatalanHyphenation of evanescent
evanes-cent
- It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
- evanescent is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
evanescent synonyms
Meaning disappear suddenly and completely:
Meaning gradually grow faint and disappear:
Meaning turn from liquid into vapour:
Meaning cease to be visible:
Meaning make or become less:
Meaning gradually diminishing in size, amount, or strength:
Meaning becoming smaller in size or amount:
Meaning quick to disappear; fleeting:
Meaning tending to disappear; fleeting:
Meaning lasting for a very short time:
Meaning going past:
Meaning not permanent:
Meaning lasting only for a short time; impermanent:
Meaning lasting for a very short time; brief:
Meaning lasting for only a limited period of time; not permanent:
Meaning of short duration; not lasting for long:
evanescent antonyms
Meaning not limited or restricted in terms of number, quantity, or extent:
Meaning lasting or intended to last or remain unchanged indefinitely:
Translation of evanescent
- German: vorübergehend
- Spanish: transitorio, pasajero, transitoria, pasajera
- French: passager
- Italian: evanescente
Words that rhyme with evanescent
cent, adjacent, circumadjacent, circumjacent, coadjacent, complacent, equijacent, interjacent, jacent, nonadjacent, noncomplacent, overcomplacent, placent, postjacent, prejacent, subadjacent, subjacent, subterjacent, superadjacent, superjacent, unadjacent, uncomplacent, accent, misaccent, nonaccent, reaccent, succent, unaccent, Melecent, Millecent, Recent, condecent, decent, indecent, nonrecent, precent, recent, undecent, unrecent, Melicent, Mellicent, Milicent, Millicent, addicent, beneficent, conticent, insufficent, irreticent, luminificent, magnificent
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