Definitions of transient

1.   of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind

2.   TRANSIENTNESS.

3.   Fleeting; brief; passing; temporary, as lodgers.

4.   ( philosophy) of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind

5.   Mobile, short- term residents who move usually to find work.

6.   enduring a very short time; " the ephemeral joys of childhood"; " a passing fancy"; " youth's transient beauty"; " love is transitory but at is eternal"; " fugacious blossoms"

7.   Hasty; momentary; imperfect; brief; as, a transient view of a landscape.

8.   Staying for a short time; not regular or permanent; as, a transient guest; transient boarders.

9.   TRANSIENTLY.

10.   Lasting but a short time; evanescent; brief; hasty.

11.   Transientness, transience.

12.   one who stays for only a short time; " transient laborers"

13.   That which remains but for a brief time.

14.   Passing; not abiding.

15.   ( physics) a short- lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load

16.   Passing before the sight or perception, or, as it were, moving over or across a space or scene viewed, and then disappearing; hence, of short duration; not permanent; not lasting or durable; not stationary; passing; fleeting; brief; transitory; as, transient pleasure.

17.   Passing: of short duration: not lasting: mementary.

18.   Transience, transiency.

Antonyms for transient

dweller, unending, marathon, burgher, undying, essential, sturdy, entrenched, indwelling, strong, extended, innate, unfathomable, Cast iron, tenant, changeless, everlasting, measureless, eternal, ceaseless, immanent, boundless, Inhabiter, stout, tough, lengthy, Resider, immortal, long-drawn-out, lifelong, congenital, inhabitant, confirmed, countless, durable, inborn, bred-in-the-bone, indestructible, hard-bitten, deep-seated, illimitable, townie, unmeasured, Indefectible, unconditioned, inured, innumerable, steady, long, constant, indispensable, unbounded, infinite, natural, townsman, persistent, subjective, timeless, inextinguishable, endless, immeasurable, far, lasting, hard core, villager, native, inveterate, unchanging, Habitant, settled, great, imperishable, occupant, vigorous, hardened, unfading, perpetual, internal, resident, abiding, hardy, long-term, deathless, deep, rooted, continuing, deep-rooted, hard, long-lived, ingrained, citizen, stable, unvarying, inherent, inseparable, unlimited, dateless, denizen, numberless, inwrought, permanent, inbred, limitless, toughened, stationary, intrinsic, enduring.

Quotes of transient

1. To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. – Arnold Bennett

2. If an election is simply a one -day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government. – James Bovard

3. Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing. – Tracey Emin

4. Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival. – Stephen Jay Gould

5. What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient shining trouble. – James Grainger

6. I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient – Horst Koehler

7. Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! – Walter Savage Landor

8. This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear. – Gerry Mulligan

9. Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self. – Guru Nanak

10. The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods. – Cecil Frank Powell

11. Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it. – Bishop Robert South

12. I think character is permanent, and issues are transient – James Stockdale

13. Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful. – Gene Tierney

14. Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes. – Christoph Martin Wieland

15. Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects. – Wilhelm Wundt

Usage examples for transient

1. “ Now, I want you to think that in life troubles will come which look as if they would never pass away; the night and the storm look as if they would last for ever; but the calm and the morning cannot be stayed; the storm in its very nature is transient ” – The Seaboard Parish, Complete by George MacDonald

2. “ It was to be her destiny to know the deep tranquil emotions of life rather than the passionate and transient ” – The Captives by Hugh Walpole

3. “ A soul- such as hers- must rise freed from transient torment. ” – The Higher Court by Mary Stewart Daggett

4. “ But Hilda surveyed her with secret envy, transient yet real. ” – Hilda Lessways by Arnold Bennett

5. “ The feeling was transient and most unreasonable; common- sense swept it aside almost as it was formed. ” – From the Car Behind by Eleanor M. Ingram

6. “ When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering: the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the water drops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst. ” – Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot

7. “ As it approached the orbit of Uranus, in the year 126 A. D., that planet chanced to be very near at hand and perturbed the motion of the meteors to such an extent that the character of their orbit was completely changed into the ellipse shown in the figure, and in this new orbit they have moved from that time to this, permanent instead of transient members of the solar system. ” – A Text-Book of Astronomy by George C. Comstock

8. “ Can you forgive me, Dr. Lacey, when I tell you that the love I once fancied I bore for you has wholly subsided, and I now feel for you a friendship, which I trust will be more lasting than my transient girlish love? ” – Tempest and Sunshine by Mary J. Holmes

9. “ War power is in its nature violent, transient established for a day; emancipation is the highest social and economical solution to be given by law and reason, and ought to result from a thorough and mature deliberation. ” – Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by Adam Gurowski

10. “ At length, his transient respite past, His comrades, who before Had heard his voice in every blast, Could catch the sound no more: For then by toil subdued, he drank The stifling wave, and then he sank. ” – Cowper by Goldwin Smith

11. “ It is not a mere transient gust of enthusiasm. ” – Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete by Matthew L. Davis

12. “ All that I can say is, that the wisest and best men in all ages had agreed in giving the preference, very greatly, to the pleasures of intellect; and that my own experience completely confirmed the truth of their decisions; that I had found sensual pleasures vain, transient and continually attended with tedium and disgust; but that intellectual pleasures appeared to me ever fresh and young, filled up all my hours satisfactorily, gave a new zest to life, and diffused a lasting serenity over my mind. ” – An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus

13. “ I was almost relieved when a hard try to bite on the part of the puppy imparted to Flurry's language a transient warmth; but the reaction was only temporary. ” – Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by E. OE. Somerville Martin Ross

14. “ A transient glow illumined the street, revealing the faces of terrified women at the windows, and in an obscure corner a group of the rioters with their hats drawn down over their eyes. ” – Garrick's Pupil by Auguston Filon

15. “ Nor was the sorrow only sharp and transient ” – Life of Charles Dickens by Frank Marzials

16. “ By what signs can one hope to identify a face which changes at pleasure, even without the help of make- up, and whose every transient expression seems to be the final, definite expression?... ” – The Confessions of Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc

17. “ The popular faith is transient and must perish. ” – Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? by John B. Remsburg

18. “ I cannot see even a transient member of my household uncomfortable. ” – The Lady of Fort St. John by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

19. “ She had not taken in her front mind the contrast of the innocent one condemned to endure the shadow from which the guilty was by a transient ceremony released. ” – One of Our Conquerors, v2 by George Meredith Edition: 10 Language: English