Usually means: Lasting for a very short time.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word Ephemeral:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. ephemeral: Merriam-Webster
  2. ephemeral: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ephemeral: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ephemeral: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ephemeral: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ephemeral, ephemeral: Wordnik
  7. ephemeral: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ephemeral: Wiktionary
  9. ephemeral: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ephemeral: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ephemeral: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ephemeral: Dictionary.com
  13. ephemeral: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Ephemeral (EP), Ephemeral (Pelican album), Ephemeral (disambiguation), Ephemeral: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Ephemeral: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. ephemeral: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. ephemeral: Rhymezone
  18. Ephemeral: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. ephemeral: FreeDictionary.org
  20. ephemeral: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. ephemeral: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. ephemeral: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ephemeral: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ephemeral: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ephemeral: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. ephemeral: Medical dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  3. Ephemeral: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  4. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  5. Bryological (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ephemeral: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ephemeral: Science In Your Watershed: Hydrologic Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ephemeral)

▸ noun:  Something which lasts for a short period of time.
▸ adjective:  Lasting for a short period of time.
▸ adjective:  (biology) Existing for only one day, as with some flowers, insects, and diseases.
▸ adjective:  (geology, of a body of water) Usually dry, but filling with water for brief periods during and after precipitation.

Similar:
transitory, transient, temporary, short-lived, impermanent, fugacious, passing, ephemera, ephemeron, one-off, more...

Opposite:
permanent, enduring, lasting, eternal

Types:
fleeting, transient, brief, momentary, evanescent, fugitive, more...

Phrases:
ephemeral streams, ephemeral stream, ephemeral fever, Ephemeral port, ephemeral lake, more...

Adjectives:
very, best, least, tragic, passionate, more, own, spring, irrepressible, trumpery, self

Colors:
    silver,     lavender,     mist,     pearl,     opal, more...



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Similar:
transitory, transient, temporary, short-lived, impermanent, fugacious, passing, ephemera, ephemeron, one-off, more...

Opposite:
permanent, enduring, lasting, eternal

Types:
fleeting, transient, brief, momentary, evanescent, fugitive, more...

Phrases:
ephemeral streams, ephemeral stream, ephemeral fever, Ephemeral port, ephemeral lake, spring ephemeral, ephemeral channel, ephemeral pond, bovine ephemeral fever, ephemeral fly, ephemeral creek, more...

Adjectives:
very, best, least, tragic, passionate, more, own, spring, irrepressible, trumpery, self

Colors:
    silver,     lavender,     mist,     pearl,     opal, more...



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