transitoryformal

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

continuing for less time than usual
shortHe received a short jail sentence.
quickI need to make a quick phone call - I'll be right back.
briefWe had a brief chat this morning.
short and sweetThe business meeting was short and sweet.
momentaryIt was just a momentary lapse in judgment - I won't do it again.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Short in time
abbreviated
at a moment's/two hours'/three weeks', etc. noticeidiom
awhile
be short noticeidiom
bite-sized
blink
bout
brief
dose
in small dosesidiom
in the blink of an eyeidiom
instant
jiffy
mayfly
minute
snatched
split second
transient
transiently
trice

Examples of momentary

momentary
The familiar vision of a central self should be replaced with that of an emergent self that is both momentary and developing.
The feelingful work of language, the creative use of language, can and does bring such images and remembrances into momentary focus.
The deeper sense of the relation between narrative structure and musical structure is never an occasional, momentary or contingent one.
That a census provides only a momentary snapshot rather than a continuous moving picture is of course true.
Visitors must not be susceptible to momentary impulses to help; their intervention must be calculated.
Conversely, momentary large excursions may also occur during the non-turbulent intervals; these are due to the large short duration excursions in the 'noise'.
What gave the discipline its momentary importance was the idea that textual analyses enabled philologists to describe the origins of the human species.
Hall suggests that the fully realised sense of self is only a momentary, contingent settlement.
Released from a narrow objectivism it plays a role in the fluid and transient understanding of our momentary selves.
However, this linkage is new and can be accomplished only through the momentary collection of these items all at once in awareness.
Thus, the "cur rent phase" appears only after a momentary hiatus.
However, the latter authors adopted a momentary criterion of instability and the predicted instability is limited to a small part of the cycle.
The figures show that as the iteration continues, the energy decreases globally with momentary increases.
This is not momentary weakness on her part, but a systematic trope in the novel.
Pitch-based score followers respond only to momentary changes of sound, and thus present different challenges than human partners in performance.
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