dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/eph_MW.json

{
  "ephemeral":{
    "antonyms":[
      "ceaseless",
      "dateless",
      "deathless",
      "endless",
      "enduring",
      "eternal",
      "everlasting",
      "immortal",
      "lasting",
      "long-lived",
      "permanent",
      "perpetual",
      "timeless",
      "undying",
      "unending"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": lasting a very short time":[
        "ephemeral pleasures"
      ],
      ": lasting one day only":[
        "an ephemeral fever"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "\u2026 several rather inflated pages of material about an ephemeral love affair Fitzgerald allegedly had with an English woman named Bijou \u2026 \u2014 Joyce Carol Oates , Times Literary Supplement , 5 Jan. 1996",
      "As a consequence North Africa was easily reconquered by the Byzantine emperor in the 530s, and the Vandals' influence on North African development was ephemeral and negligible. \u2014 Norman F. Cantor , The Civilization of the Middle Ages , 1993",
      "This accounts for the peculiar sense most observers have that the ephemeral , sensationalist, polymorphous, magpie popular culture of the United States is at bottom remarkably conservative \u2026 \u2014 Louis Menand , Harper's , March 1993",
      "the autumnal blaze of colors is always to be treasured, all the more so because it is so ephemeral",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "At a time when most fashion trends have gotten more ephemeral and less universal because of constant product churn, some manage to achieve the opposite: a ubiquity that feels disconnected from perceptible demand. \u2014 Amanda Mull, The Atlantic , 23 June 2022",
      "Perhaps part of the beauty is the loss; the flowers suggest an ephemeral grace. \u2014 New York Times , 22 June 2022",
      "Le Chevalier\u2019s manuscript\u2014written in (eccentric) French, the lingua franca of diplomacy, one of his ephemeral m\u00e9tiers\u2014has its own picaresque history. \u2014 Judith Thurman, The New Yorker , 20 June 2022",
      "Gary Hamel, cofounder of the Management Lab and coauthor of Humanocracy, argues that there are certain ephemeral qualities to leadership that simply can\u2019t be taught. \u2014 Nicole Gull Mcelroy, Fortune , 16 June 2022",
      "This can be a go-to formula for creating design that will be lasting and not too ephemeral . \u2014 Jura Koncius, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
      "At times, Kavachi has even created ephemeral islands due to its eruptions. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 24 May 2022",
      "There\u2019s reason to believe Tyson could launch at least an ephemeral rally after the beating it\u2019s taken in the past month. \u2014 John Dobosz, Forbes , 23 May 2022",
      "And in August 2021, a district court ruled that the Trump ephemeral streams regulation suffered from fundamental flaws and therefore had to be thrown out. \u2014 Zayna Syed, The Arizona Republic , 17 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The plant grows in clumps and is a spring ephemeral \u2014producing leaves and flowers for about a month, then going dormant for the rest of the year. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "There isn\u2019t a growing season for native plants, although ephemerals bloom and die in a few days and others flower even when there\u2019s snow on the ground. \u2014 Hattie Bernstein, BostonGlobe.com , 5 July 2018",
      "Early-blooming wildflowers called spring ephemerals \u2013 such as spring beauty, yellow trout lily, marsh marigold, and more \u2013 pop up in fields and woods across Northeast Ohio during early spring. \u2014 cleveland.com , 8 May 2017",
      "Spring ephemerals bloom before tree leaves block the sunlight from reaching the forest floor. \u2014 cleveland.com , 8 May 2017",
      "Like all spring ephemerals , the clock is always ticking for the wood anemone. \u2014 Dave Taft, New York Times , 26 Apr. 2017",
      "The timing of this fleeting wildflower, as with other spring ephemerals , is critical to the balance of the ecosystem. \u2014 National Geographic , 24 Apr. 2016"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1576, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Adjective",
      "1807, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Greek eph\u0113meros lasting a day, daily, from epi- + h\u0113mera day":"Adjective and Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "i-\u02c8fem(-\u0259)-r\u0259l",
      "-\u02c8f\u0113-",
      "-\u02c8f\u0113m-",
      "-\u02c8fe-m\u0259-",
      "i-\u02c8fem-r\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for ephemeral Adjective transient , transitory , ephemeral , momentary , fugitive , fleeting , evanescent mean lasting or staying only a short time. transient applies to what is actually short in its duration or stay. a hotel catering primarily to transient guests transitory applies to what is by its nature or essence bound to change, pass, or come to an end. fame in the movies is transitory ephemeral implies striking brevity of life or duration. many slang words are ephemeral momentary suggests coming and going quickly and therefore being merely a brief interruption of a more enduring state. my feelings of guilt were only momentary fugitive and fleeting imply passing so quickly as to make apprehending difficult. let a fugitive smile flit across his face fleeting moments of joy evanescent suggests a quick vanishing and an airy or fragile quality. the story has an evanescent touch of whimsy that is lost in translation",
    "synonyms":[
      "brief",
      "deciduous",
      "evanescent",
      "flash",
      "fleeting",
      "fugacious",
      "fugitive",
      "impermanent",
      "momentary",
      "passing",
      "short-lived",
      "temporary",
      "transient",
      "transitory"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-104335",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "ephyra":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a free-swimming larva of a scyphozoan jellyfish formed by transverse fission of a scyphistoma and growing into a medusa \u2014 compare strobila":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Ephyra , a nymph, from Latin, from Greek":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ef\u0259r\u0259"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-121647",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "ephyrula":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": ephyra":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Ephyra , a nymph + New Latin -ula":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259\u0307\u02c8fir(y)\u0259l\u0259"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-115905",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  }
}