different between fugacious vs fitting
fugacious
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fug?cius, comparative of fug?citer (“evasively, fleetingly”), from fug?x (“transitory, fleeting”), from fugi? (“I flee”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /fju???e?.??s/
Adjective
fugacious (comparative more fugacious, superlative most fugacious)
- Fleeting, fading quickly, transient.
- 1906, O. Henry, "The Furnished Room", in The Four Million:
- Restless, shifting, fugacious as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population of the red brick district of the lower West Side. Homeless, they have a hundred homes.
- 2011, Michael Feeney Callan, Robert Redford: The Biography, Alfred A. Knopf (2011), ?ISBN, page xvii:
- It may be that Redford's fugacious nature is not so mysterious, that it is studded in the artwork of the labs and the very stones of Sundance.
- 1906, O. Henry, "The Furnished Room", in The Four Million:
Derived terms
- fugaciously
- fugaciousness
Related terms
- fugacity
- fugue
- fugitive
Translations
fugacious From the web:
- what judicious mean
- what fugacious means
- fugacious what does it mean
- what does fugacious mean in english
- what does judicious mean
- what does fugacious
- what do fugacious mean
- what does fugacious synonym
fitting
English
Alternative forms
- (ready): fittin', fittin
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?t??/
- Rhymes: -?t??
Verb
fitting
- present participle of fit
- (informal, US, with infinitive) Getting ready; preparing.
- I'm fitting to go home and sleep.
Synonyms
- (ready): fixing to (see also going to)
Adjective
fitting (comparative more fitting, superlative most fitting)
- Ready, appropriate, suitable, or in keeping
Translations
Noun
fitting (countable and uncountable, plural fittings)
- A small part, especially a standardized or detachable part of a device or machine.
- (engineering) A tube connector; a standardized connecting part of a piping system to attach sections of pipe together, such as a coupling
- The act of trying on clothes to inspect or adjust the fit.
- (manufacturing) The process of fitting up; especially of applying craft methods such as skilled filing to the making and assembling of machines or other products.
- (chiefly Britain, often plural) A removable item in a house or other building, which can be taken with one when one moves out, such as a moveable piece of furniture, a carpet, picture, etc.; US furnishing; compare fixture.
- the fittings of a church or study
- (uncountable) The action or condition of having fits in the sense of seizures or convulsions.
- Since her medication was changed, her fitting has got worse.
Derived terms
- fitting-out
- fitting room (noun)
Translations
fitting From the web:
- what fitting rooms are open
- what fitting rooms are open 2021
- what fitting is a garden hose
- what fittings are secured for cbr defense
- what fitting rooms are open may 2021
- what fitting rooms are open near me
- what fittings to use for gas
- what fitting rooms are open right now
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- fugacious vs fitting
- predisposition vs attraction
- guess vs infer
- deface vs stain
- slacken vs wane
- initial vs earliest
- notice vs concern
- vassalage vs bonds
- deference vs service
- decisiveness vs purpose
- huge vs hulking
- uncaring vs deliberate
- influence vs protection
- protector vs asylum
- wantonness vs play
- desirous vs fervent
- courteous vs kindly
- covering vs envelope
- unrewarding vs uninteresting
- clown vs imbecile