Transient is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TRANSIENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a transient thing or being
• a person who is staying or working in a place for a short time only.
• a momentary variation in current, voltage, or frequency.
• That which remains but for a brief time.
• one who stays for only a short time
• (physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load
ADJECTIVE:
• not lasting long
• lasting only for a short time; impermanent
• staying or working in a place for a short time only
• Passing before the sight or perception, or, as it were, moving over or across a space or scene viewed, and then disappearing; hence, of short duration; not permanent; not lasting or durable; not stationary; passing; fleeting; brief; transitory; as, transient pleasure.
• Hasty; momentary; imperfect; brief; as, a transient view of a landscape.
• Staying for a short time; not regular or permanent; as, a transient guest; transient boarders.
• of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind
• lasting a very short time
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• passing especially quickly into and out of existence; transitory; passing through or by a place with only a brief stay or sojourn
• same as transeunt

Words related to TRANSIENT

transeunt9 transience12 transiently14 transients10

Words that contain TRANSIENT

transients10 transiently14 transientness13 transientnesses15

How to use TRANSIENT in a sentence

• The poem is one of the most ideal of human productions, soaring beyond what is material and transient.
• Most of these relate to transient or petty matters which, if made affairs for public action at all, should be left to legislation.
• And for this very reason it is an index, not to that which is transient in the man, but to that which is permanent.
• Lewisham felt a transient wonder at her hopeless position, but he did not pursue the inquiry.
• The impressions are in all respects so dim, vague, and transient, that I doubt whether they can reasonably be called images.
• Motives more varied, gradations of sentiment more delicate, the fugitive and transient phases of emotion, the inner depths of consciousness, had somehow to be seized.
• A new and foreign element had been introduced into the little group, whose influence was not to be transient.
• Living in the flesh seems so transient, almost a pitiful thing in the last analysis.
• They lifted it to Him Who had been pleased to lavish such masterpieces upon this transient earth.
• Nevertheless, the effect of both of these turns of fortune was transient.
• She had come out here to think, but it was odd how fugitive and transient her thoughts became.
• Mr Brindley thought that that transient pallor had been caused by legitimate pride in high-class revolver-shooting.
• But these plays represent an essentially transient state of thought.
• They were often disappointed that they could not harness him to their partial and transient scheme.
• The situation, though transient, had been sufficiently difficult.
• All the things we ever knew Will be ashes in that hour, Mark the transient butterfly, How he hangs upon the flower.
• A fine road of easy ascent winds up the mountain, and on the summit is a good hotel which is annually patronized by thousands of transient visitors.
• On the deaths, in one year, of Malcolm, Margaret, and Fothadh, the last Celtic bishop of St Andrews, the see for many years was vacant or merely filled by transient bishops.
• But the wave of feeling soon retired, and there is no reason to believe that more than a transient impression was made.
• Let us note the abiding Word, which these transient generations of hearers and speakers have had to do with.

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