Synonyms for Short-lived:

• adj.

  •brief (adjective)
  • instantaneous,
  • more curtailed,
  • shortlived,
  • most curtailed,
  • quick,
  • quickest,
  • short lived.
  •ephemeral (adjective)
  • more unenduring,
  • episodic,
  • un enduring,
  • un-enduring,
  • most unenduring,
  • impermanent.
  •evanescent (adjective)
  • dis-appearing,
  • most disappearing,
  • more disappearing,
  • evanescent,
  • dis appearing.
  •fleeting (adjective)
  • flash pan,
  • flash the pan,
  • flash in pan.
  •fly-by-night (adjective)
  • most here today gone tomorrow,
  • more here today gone tomorrow,
  • more trustless,
  • un-trustworthy,
  • un professional,
  • slimier,
  • most cowboy,
  • most trustless,
  • not be relied upon,
  • not to be relied up on,
  • un reliable,
  • more cowboy,
  • un-professional,
  • here-today-gone-tomorrow,
  • not be relied up on,
  • un dependable,
  • most here-today-gone-tomorrow,
  • un-sure,
  • here today gone tomorrow,
  • un-reliable,
  • not be trusted,
  • dis reputable,
  • dis-reputable,
  • more here-today-gone-tomorrow,
  • un-dependable,
  • fly by night,
  • un sure.
  •fugacious (adjective)
  • fugacious.
  •fugitive (adjective)
  • Escaping,
  • on the lam,
  • lamster,
  • running away,
  • wanted.
  •little (adjective)
  • shrimpy,
  • wee,
  • not large,
  • Toyer,
  • hardly any,
  • under-sized,
  • smallish,
  • not big,
  • junior,
  • snubber,
  • mini,
  • tiny,
  • least.
  •momentary (adjective)
  • in wink an eye,
  • most flashing,
  • gone flash,
  • flashing,
  • more flashing,
  • in wink eye,
  • like lightning,
  • most shifting,
  • in wink of eye.
  •not around for long (adjective)
  • gone in a heartbeat,
  • over in a heartbeat,
  • of short duration,
  • short-run,
  • short-haul.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • perishable,
  • supersonic,
  • short-range,
  • not to be trusted,
  • passing,
  • like mad,
  • band aid,
  • alacritous,
  • volatile,
  • temporal,
  • pro tem,
  • make do,
  • speedball,
  • Barrelling,
  • double-quick,
  • unfixed,
  • shaking a leg,
  • deciduous,
  • over night,
  • ephemeral,
  • supplier,
  • little,
  • momentary,
  • fleeting,
  • of time,
  • Trustless,
  • fugitive,
  • for the time being,
  • not to be relied upon,
  • like crazy,
  • transitory,
  • ad interim,
  • transient,
  • short-term,
  • fly-by-night,
  • make-do,
  • gone in flash,
  • in wink of an eye,
  • temporary,
  • overnight,
  • Unenduring.
  •passing (adjective)
  • most glancing,
  • more glancing.
  •perishable (adjective)
  • de composable,
  • most decomposable,
  • easily spoiled,
  • decomposable,
  • more destructible,
  • de-composable,
  • destructible,
  • most destructible,
  • more decomposable.
  •short (adjective)
  • Curtate,
  • shortest,
  • breviloquent,
  • not protracted,
  • decurtate,
  • in a nutshell,
  • cut to bone,
  • cut to the bone,
  • epigrammatic,
  • unprolonged,
  • compendiary,
  • Unsustained.
  •short-range (adjective)
  • tactical.
  •short-term (adjective)
  • shortterm,
  • short term.
  •swift (adjective)
  • more fleet footed,
  • more fleetfooted,
  • un-expected,
  • fleet-footed,
  • most speedball,
  • doublequick,
  • super-sonic,
  • fleetfooted,
  • more screaming,
  • head-long,
  • more alacritous,
  • shaking leg,
  • ex press,
  • most doublequick,
  • head long,
  • most cracking,
  • most screaming,
  • more double-quick,
  • ex-press,
  • in nothing flat,
  • most fleet footed,
  • most alacritous,
  • on double,
  • most double quick,
  • super sonic,
  • un expected,
  • more speedball,
  • most supersonic,
  • more supersonic,
  • most fleet-footed,
  • more barrelling,
  • more doublequick,
  • most barrelling,
  • more double quick,
  • most double-quick,
  • most fleetfooted,
  • more cracking,
  • more fleet-footed,
  • double quick,
  • fleet footed.
  •temporal (adjective)
  • chrono-logical,
  • chrono logical.
  •temporary (adjective)
  • more makedo,
  • over-night,
  • most unfixed,
  • most band-aid,
  • most make-do,
  • more overnight,
  • more make-do,
  • more bandaid,
  • un fixed,
  • for time being,
  • most bandaid,
  • temp,
  • bandaid,
  • makedo,
  • suppliest,
  • most makedo,
  • pro visional,
  • more make do,
  • most make do,
  • un-fixed,
  • most overnight,
  • more band aid,
  • more unfixed,
  • more band-aid,
  • provisory,
  • most band aid.
  •transient (adjective)
  • flickering,
  • mutable,
  • Flitting,
  • mortal,
  • fickle,
  • fading,
  • rootless,
  • cursory,
  • changeable,
  • shifting,
  • restless.
  •transient/transitory (adjective)
  • more emigrating,
  • flasher,
  • flashest,
  • most deciduous,
  • most emigrating,
  • most vacating,
  • more deciduous,
  • trans migratory,
  • most migrating,
  • in substantial,
  • in-substantial,
  • more migrating,
  • more vacating,
  • trans-migratory.
  •volatile (adjective)
  • un steadier,
  • un-steadiest,
  • un settled,
  • in consistent,
  • in-constant,
  • un-settled,
  • in-consistent,
  • un-steadier,
  • un steady,
  • un steadiest.

• n.

  •
  • variable.
  •
  • time,
  • fleet,
  • continue.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • duration.

• v.

  •Other relevant words: (verb)
  • brief.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • inconstant,
  • momentarily,
  • quickly,
  • provisional,
  • ephemera,
  • fluid,
  • protean,
  • negotiable,
  • draft,
  • throwaway,
  • transitional,
  • convertible,
  • kaleidoscopic,
  • uncertain,
  • floating,
  • interim,
  • turbulent,
  • erratic,
  • caretaker,
  • skittish,
  • tenuous,
  • awhile,
  • semipermanent,
  • briefly,
  • adjustable.
  •
  • short,
  • reversible,
  • elastic.
  •Other relevant words:
  • sticking-plaster.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • impetuous,
  • hasty,
  • impulsive,
  • fragile,
  • meteoric,
  • disappearing,
  • here today,
  • dying,
  • gone tomorrow,
  • expiring,
  • transitive,
  • limited,
  • brittle,
  • flying,
  • slipping away,
  • corruptible,
  • nonpermanent,
  • makeshift,
  • stand-by,
  • capricious,
  • going,
  • unstable,
  • insubstantial,
  • stopgap,
  • vanishing,
  • nondurable,
  • flash,
  • spasmodic,
  • frail,
  • swift.

Paraphrases for Short-lived:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    ephemeral.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    short-duration, transitory, short-sighted, transient, short-, short-range, shortterm, mayfly, short-run, acute.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    short-term, short, shorter, short-stay, fleeting, brief, temporary.

Antonyms for Short-lived:

• adj.

  • not around for long
    lengthy, ethereal, perpetual, permanent, enduring, lasting, long-lived, long.
  • Other antonyms:
    timeless.