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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Transitory \Tran"si*to*ry\, a. [L. transitorius: cf. F.
     transitoire. See Transient.]
     Continuing only for a short time; not enduring; fleeting;
     evanescent.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Comfort and succor all those who, in this transitory
           life, are in trouble.                    --Bk. of Com.
                                                    Prayer.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           It was not the transitory light of a comet, which
           shines and glows for a wile, and then . . . vanishes
           into nothing.                            --South.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Transitory action (Law), an action which may be brought in
        any county, as actions for debt, and the like; -- opposed
        to local action. --Blackstone. Bouvier.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: transient; short-lived; brief. See Transient.
          [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Transitory \Tran"si*to*ry\, a. [L. transitorius: cf. F.
     transitoire. See Transient.]
     Continuing only for a short time; not enduring; fleeting;
     evanescent.
  
           Comfort and succor all those who, in this transitory
           life, are in trouble.                    --Bk. of Com.
                                                    Prayer.
  
           It was not the transitory light of a comet, which
           shines and glows for a wile, and then . . . vanishes
           into nothing.                            --South.
  
     Transitory action (Law), an action which may be brought in
        any county, as actions for debt, and the like; -- opposed
        to local action. --Blackstone. Bouvier.
  
     Syn: transient; short-lived; brief. See Transient.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  transitory
       adj : enduring a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of
             childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient
             beauty"; "love is transitory but at is eternal";
             "fugacious blossoms" [syn: ephemeral, passing, short-lived,
              transient, fugacious]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  transitory
     a.
     1 last#Verb only a short#Adjective time#Noun; temporary.
     2 (lb en law) Of an action: that may be brought in any county

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  transitory
     a.
     1 last#Verb only a short#Adjective time#Noun; temporary.
     2 (lb en law) Of an action: that may be brought in any county

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  transitory
     a.
     1 last#Verb only a short#Adjective time#Noun; temporary.
     2 (lb en law) Of an action: that may be brought in any county

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  transitory
     a.
     1 last#Verb only a short#Adjective time#Noun; temporary.
     2 (lb en law) Of an action: that may be brought in any county

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  transitory
     Englanti a.
     ohimenevä, lyhytaikainen

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Transitory /tɹˈansɪtəɹi/
  عابر

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  transitory //ˈtɹæn.sɪ.t(ə)ɹɪ// //ˈtɹæn.sɪˌtɔɹ.i// //ˈtɹæn.zɪ.t(ə)ɹɪ// //ˈtɹæn.zɪˌtɔɹ.i// 
  временен, краткотраен, мимолетен
  lasting only a short time

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  transitory /tɹˈansɪtəɹi/
  pomíjivý

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  transitory /tɹˈansɪtəɹi/
  vergänglich, vorübergehend, vorbeigehend, transitorisch, kurzwierig  [Oberdt.]

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  transitory //ˈtɹæn.sɪ.t(ə)ɹɪ// //ˈtɹæn.sɪˌtɔɹ.i// //ˈtɹæn.zɪ.t(ə)ɹɪ// //ˈtɹæn.zɪˌtɔɹ.i// 
  lyhytaikainen, ohimenevä, väliaikainen
  lasting only a short time

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  transitory /tɹˈansɪtəɹi/ 
  1. अनित्य
        "Happiness is transitory."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  transitory /tɹˈansɪtəɹi/
  kratkotrajan, kratkovječan, prelazni, prolazan, vremenski

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  transitory /tɹˈansɪtəɹi/
  1. átmeneti
  2. ideiglenes
  3. tünékeny
  4. mulandó

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  transitory /ˈtrænzɪtərɪ/ 
    przejściowy

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  transitory //ˈtɹæn.sɪ.t(ə)ɹɪ// //ˈtɹæn.sɪˌtɔɹ.i// //ˈtɹæn.zɪ.t(ə)ɹɪ// //ˈtɹæn.zɪˌtɔɹ.i// 
  flyktig, förgänglig, kortvarig
  lasting only a short time

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  transitory /tɹˈansɪtəɹi/
  1. geçici, süreksiz
  2. fani, kalımsız. transitorily  geçici olarak. transitoriness  geçicilik
  3. fanilik.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈtɹænzəˌtɔɹi/

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :   [ bouvier ]

  TRANSITORY. That which lasts but a short time, as transitory facts that 
  which may be laid in different places, as a transitory action. 
  
  

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  97 Moby Thesaurus words for "transitory":
     able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, alterable, alterative, brief,
     brittle, capricious, changeable, checkered, circumforaneous,
     corruptible, deciduous, discursive, divagatory, drifting, dying,
     ephemeral, errant, evanescent, ever-changing, fading, fickle,
     fleeting, flexible, flitting, floating, fluid, fly-by-night,
     flying, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, fragile, frail,
     fugacious, fugitive, gadding, gypsy-like, gypsyish, impermanent,
     impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, insubstantial, kaleidoscopic,
     landloping, malleable, many-sided, meandering, metamorphic,
     migrational, migratory, mobile, modifiable, momentary, mortal,
     movable, mutable, nomad, nomadic, nondurable, nonpermanent,
     nonuniform, passing, perishable, permutable, plastic, protean,
     proteiform, rambling, ranging, resilient, roaming, roving, rubbery,
     shifting, short-lived, short-term, straggling, straying, strolling,
     supple, temporal, temporary, traipsing, transient, transitive,
     transmigratory, transubstantiate, undurable, unenduring, unstable,
     vagabond, vagrant, variable, volatile, wandering
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  短暂的

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 暂时的,短暂的,昙花一现的

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