Definitions for ephemeral

ephemeral e·phem·er·al

Spelling: [ih-fem-er-uh l]
IPA: /ɪˈfɛm ər əl/

Ephemeral is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 273 anagrams from letters in ephemeral (aeeehlmpr).

Definitions for ephemeral

noun

  1. anything short-lived, as certain insects.

adjective

  1. lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory:
  2. lasting but one day:

Origin of ephemeral

1570-80; Greek ephḗmer(os) short-lived, lasting but a day (ep- ep- + hēmér(a) day + -os adj. suffix) + -al1

Examples for ephemeral

But as stimulus goes, the I-stimulus strikes me as a pretty narcissistic and ephemeral one.

Whatever his approval ratings, the Russian leader knows how ephemeral they can be.

Most news articles were just as ephemeral, but it has become harder to pretend.

Must not the fame that is instantaneous prove hollow and ephemeral?

It may all be ephemeral, because most of politics is ephemeral, a cynical means to the end of getting elected.

Life is precarious as the fall of a die at best an ephemeral business.

And so of children's play-books as well as their work-books; these are as ephemeral as their other toys.

And what are the haughtiest of us, but the ephemeral aristocrats of a summer's day?

Some readers may smile at the notion of taking seriously these ephemeral productions.

Following an all too predictable cycle of the hyperactive 21st century, focus on the explosion was ephemeral.

Word Value for ephemeral
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