SHORT-LIVED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does short-lived mean? 

• SHORT-LIVED (adjective)
  The adjective SHORT-LIVED has 1 sense:

1. lasting a very short time

  Familiarity information: SHORT-LIVED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHORT-LIVED (adjective)

Comparative: shorter-lived   
Superlative: shortest-lived   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lasting a very short time

Synonyms:

ephemeral; fugacious; passing; short-lived; transient; transitory

Context example:

fugacious blossoms

Similar:

impermanent; temporary (not permanent; not lasting)

 Context examples 

Models of the early universe predict such stars were massive, blue and short-lived.

(Astronomers detect ancient signal from first stars in universe, National Science Foundation)

Unlike the artificial radiation belts, these geomagnetic effects were short-lived, lasting only seconds.

(Space Weather Events Linked to Human Activity, NASA)

The term of the deal is almost always short-lived.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The researcher found that the microglia were able to communicate with and fully maintain the function of neurons in the retina, especially when the depletion was short-lived.

(Immune cells in the retina can spontaneously regenerate, National Institutes of Health)

This was produced by the short-lived disk of debris that powered the gamma-ray burst.

(NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event, NASA)

The finding calls into question the idea that the recent accelerated ice loss will be short-lived.

(Hidden Greenland canyons mean more sea level rise, NASA)

A nonapeptide messenger that is enzymatically produced from kallidin in the blood where it is a potent but short-lived agent of arteriolar dilation and increased capillary permeability.

(Bradykinin, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The findings suggest that abrupt, short-lived climate events can cause long-term alterations in polar regions that unfold over the span of several years and subsequently change the overall trajectory of an ecosystem.

(Extreme melt season leads to decade-long ecosystem changes in Antarctica's Dry Valleys, National Science Foundation)

As darkness came on, the hunting-cries to right and left and rear drew closer—so close that more than once they sent surges of fear through the toiling dogs, throwing them into short-lived panics.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

They are short-lived cells resembling bursa-derived lymphocytes of birds in their production of immunoglobulin upon appropriate stimulation.

(Murine B-Lymphocytes, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)