Transient

Adjective

 * 1) Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.
 * 2) Remaining for only a brief time.
 * 3)  Decaying with time, especially exponentially.
 * 4)  having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again.
 * 5) Occasional; isolated; one-off; individual.
 * 6) Passing through; passing from one person to another.
 * 7)  Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.

Synonyms

 * (1) passing: passing, transitory, temporary
 * (2) brief: brief, ephemeral, fleeting, flighty, fugacious

Antonyms

 * (1) passing: permanent
 * (2) brief: permanent
 * (4) math: recurrent
 * (7) philosophy: immanent

Derived terms

 * transience
 * transiently
 * transientness

Noun

 * 1) Something which is transient.
 * 2)  A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.
 * 3)  A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform which occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum.
 * 4) A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker
 * 5) * 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 3
 * Then, within the space of a few months, there were more transients than there were locals, and the imbalance seemed morally wrong.
 * 1) An unhoused person

Synonyms

 * (4) traveller: itinerant, migrant, traveller
 * (5) homeless: homeless


 * French:


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Adverbs for Transient
painfully; lamentably; fortunately; fleetingly; merely; pathetically; sadly; tragically; ephemerally; bitterly; meteorically; brilliantly.

Thesaurus
able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, adventurer, alpinist, alterable, alterative, arising, astronaut, board-and-roomer, boarder, brief, brittle, camper, capricious, changeable, checkered, circumforaneous, climber, comers and goers, coming, commuter, compact, compendious, concise, corruptible, cosmopolite, cruiser, curt, curtal, curtate, deciduous, decurtate, disappearing, discursive, dissolving, divagatory, drifting, dying, emanating, emanative, emanent, emergent, emerging, ephemeral, errant, evanescent, evaporating, ever-changing, excursionist, explorer, fading, fare, fickle, fleeting, flexible, flitting, floating, fluid, fly-by-night, flying, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, forthcoming, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, gadding, globe-girdler, globe-trotter, goer, gypsy-like, gypsyish, hajji, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, instantaneous, insubstantial, issuing, jet set, jet-setter, journeyer, kaleidoscopic, landloping, lessee, little, lodger, low, malleable, many-sided, mariner, meandering, melting, metamorphic, migrational, migratory, mobile, modifiable, momentaneous, momentary, mortal, mountaineer, movable, mutable, nomad, nomadic, nondurable, nonpermanent, nonuniform, palmer, passenger, passer, passerby, passing, pathfinder, paying guest, perishable, permutable, pilgrim, pioneer, plastic, protean, proteiform, rambling, ranging, renter, resilient, roaming, roomer, roving, rubberneck, rubbernecker, rubbery, sailor, shifting, short, short and sweet, short-lived, short-term, sightseer, sojourner, straggling, straphanger, straying, strolling, subject to death, succinct, summary, supple, surfacing, synoptic, temporal, temporary, temporary lodger, tenant, tourer, tourist, trailblazer, trailbreaker, traipsing, transeunt, transient guest, transitive, transitory, transmigratory, traveler, trekker, tripper, underlessee, undurable, unenduring, unstable, vagabond, vagrant, vanishing, variable, viator, visiting fireman, volatile, voortrekker, voyager, voyageur, wandering, wayfarer, world-traveler

Etymology
From stem of transiens:, present participle of transeo:

Adjective

 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:, , ,
 * German: vergänglich
 * Italian:


 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, efemer, , tranzitoriu
 * Russian: кратковременный, мимолётный, недолговечный, преходящий, скоротечный
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: ,


 * French:, ,


 * German:


 * Hebrew: חולף


 * Russian: случайный, отдельный

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