Temporary
['temp(ə)rərɪ] or ['tɛmpə'rɛri]
Definition
(a.) Lasting for a time only; existing or continuing for a limited time; not permanent; as, the patient has obtained temporary relief.
Editor: Rhoda
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Transitory, transient, fleeting, evanescent, ephemeral, short-lived, temporal, brief, not permanent, not eternal, for a time, of short duration.
Typed by Deirdre
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Present, immediate, partial, limited, transient, impermanent
ANT:Perpetual, lasting, confirmed, complete, {[nnal]?}, perfect, permanent, entire
Checker: Thomas
Examples
- We had a temporary lodging in Covent Garden. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- That bloodless lip quivered to a temporary spasm. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He described this republic; shewed how it gave privilege to each individual in the state, to rise to consequence, and even to temporary sovereignty. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Mr. Jarndyce then withdrawing into the temporary growlery, Miss Jellyby opened a conversation with her usual abruptness. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But this need is occasional and temporary. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In the temporary lull produced by that impartial sentence, I laid my lady's written message on the table, under the eyes of Sergeant Cuff. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Were they merely kept in temporary abeyance, or even only calloused, it would not be a matter of so much moment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- When the process is stopped and the temporary wall in front broken down the bloom is removed with a pair of tongs from the bottom of the furnace. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The real piety and benevolence of the simple old man invested him with a temporary dignity and authority, as he spoke. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Since that little cloud was dispelled all the temporary waste and wanness have vanished. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They turned the sharp corner at the bottom towards the temporary home which Clym had hired and furnished, about five miles to the eastward. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- What I have said as to the temporary preservation of fish by fishmongers applies equally to the preservation of meat and fowls by butchers and poulterers. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- It is true that my absence was for a temporary period only, but the coincidence was, in my opinion, not the less remarkable on that account. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The Paris plant, like that at the Crystal Palace, was a temporary exhibit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This phrase, in its senseless arrogance, quite cured me of the temporary weakness which had made me relax my tone and aspect. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Checker: McDonald