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- pronunciation:
- traen
sih
to
ri
[or]
traen
zih
to
ri
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition: |
lasting for only a short time; brief.
She hoped her son's interest in this strange girl would be transitory.- antonyms:
- permanent
- similar words:
- brief, fugitive, momentary, passing, short, temporal, transient
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| related words: |
fleeting, temporary |
adverb + (adj.)transitory
best, generally, highly, instead, merely, moreover, neither, primarily, relatively, therefore
(adj.)transitory
+ noun
account,
affair,
amnesia,
anaemia,
arbitrage,
aspect,
attitude,
beauty,
behavior,
career,
comfort,
concept,
concern,
contact,
context,
corpus,
delight,
departure,
dysfunction,
effect,
element,
emission,
existence,
exposure,
feature,
friendship,
gain,
hope,
identity,
imagining,
influence,
institution,
lifestyle,
measure,
mechanic,
moment,
monument,
mood,
nature,
object,
organ,
others,
phase,
phenomenon,
politics,
presence,
reality,
realization,
regime,
sculpture,
snow,
stage,
symptom,
vesicle
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| derivations: |
transitorily (adv.), transitoriness (n.) |
The word transitory
contains the following part:
-ory, -atory2
Latin
adjective-forming suffix
that means serving to, pertaining to
  More about this word part:
The suffix -ory
, -atory2 attaches to Latin verb roots to form adjectives. Adjectives ending in "-atory
" tend to have corresponding verbs ending in "-ate" (congratulatory: congratulate).
Example words:
accusatory, advisory, aleatory, amatory, ambulatory, anticipatory, auditory, commendatory, compulsory, conciliatory, cursory, dextrorotatory, ejaculatory, exclamatory, exploratory, illusory, mandatory, obligatory, perfunctory, placatory, preparatory, refractory, respiratory, satisfactory, sensory, transitory
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