1.
[syn: impermanent, temporary]
2. existing or enduring for a limited time only;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Impermanent \Im*per"ma*nent\, a.
Not permanent.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
impermanent
adj 1: not permanent; not lasting; "politics is an impermanent
factor of life"- James Thurber; "impermanent palm
cottages"; "a temperary arrangement"; "temporary housing"
[syn: impermanent, temporary] [ant: lasting,
permanent]
2: existing or enduring for a limited time only
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "impermanent":
able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, alterable, alterative,
brittle, capricious, changeable, checkered, corruptible, deciduous,
dying, ephemeral, evanescent, ever-changing, fading, fickle,
fleeting, flexible, flitting, fluid, fly-by-night, flying, fragile,
frail, fugacious, fugitive, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant,
insubstantial, kaleidoscopic, malleable, many-sided, metamorphic,
mobile, modifiable, momentary, mortal, movable, mutable,
nondurable, nonpermanent, nonuniform, passing, perishable,
permutable, plastic, protean, proteiform, resilient, rubbery,
short-lived, supple, temporal, temporary, transient, transitive,
transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable, variable, volatile