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Synonyms for ephemeral

The synonym for ephemeral recorded in this bank is passing, in the sense "lasting a very short time". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for ephemeral

passingadjective, in the sense "lasting a very short time"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for ephemeral.

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High CampTime

lasting a very short time

The ephemeral joys of childhood.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

passing

Same sentence, swapped: The passing joys of childhood.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

perennial
evergreen
hardy

Where ephemeral turns up in the game

ephemeral is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play ephemeral

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so ephemeral reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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