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temporary synonyms
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- ad interim
- adjutant
- alternate
- assistant
- delegated
- deputy
- interim
- pro tem
- pro tempore
- provisional
- impromptu
- provisional
- special
- specific
- specified
- acting
- brief
- interim
- pro tem
- pro tempore
- provisional
- short-lived
- backup
- double
- equivalent
- fill-in
- proxy
- replacement
- stand-in
- sub
- surrogate
- acknowledgment
- antiphon
- back talk
- backcap
- close
- comeback
- comment
- cooler
- counterclaim
- crack
- abrupt
- bluff
- blunt
- boiled down
- breviloquent
- brusque
- compendiary
- compendious
- concise
- crisp
- agitated
- capricious
- changeful
- commutative
- convertible
- fickle
- fitful
- flighty
- fluctuating
- fluid
- brief
- episodic
- evanescent
- fleeting
- flitting
- fugacious
- fugitive
- impermanent
- short
- short-lived
- brief
- disappearing
- fading
- fleeting
- momentary
- passing
- short-lived
- temporary
- tenuous
- vanishing
- cursory
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- fading
- flash in the pan
- flitting
- flying
- fugacious
- fugitive
- impermanent
- all along
- all the while
- amid
- as
- at the same time as
- at the time
- in the course of
- in the interim
- in the meanwhile
- in the middle of
- brief
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- fleeting
- impermanent
- momentary
- passing
- short-lived
- temporal
- temporary
- avoiding
- brief
- criminal
- elusive
- ephemeral
- errant
- erratic
- escaping
- evading
- evanescent
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- passing
- perishable
- temporary
- transient
- acting
- ad interim
- caretaker
- improvised
- intervening
- makeshift
- pro tem
- pro tempore
- provisional
- stopgap
- bound
- bounded
- checked
- circumscribed
- confined
- constrained
- controlled
- curbed
- defined
- delimited
- Band-Aid
- alternative
- expedient
- hit-or-miss
- provisional
- quick-and-dirty
- slapdash
- stopgap
- substitute
- temp
- Band-Aid
- alternative
- expedient
- hit-or-miss
- make-do
- provisional
- quick-and-dirty
- slapdash
- stopgap
- substitute
- cursory
- dreamlike
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- flashing
- flitting
- flying
- fugacious
- fugitive
- gone in flash
- bitter
- death-dealing
- deathly
- destructive
- dire
- ending
- extreme
- fatal
- grave
- great
- dazzling
- ephemeral
- flashing
- fleeting
- momentary
- rapid
- spectacular
- speedy
- swift
- transient
- cursory
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- fleeting
- fugacious
- fugitive
- glancing
- hasty
- impermanent
- momentary
- decaying
- decomposable
- destructible
- easily spoiled
- short-lived
- unstable
- Band-Aid
- acting
- ad hoc
- ad interim
- alternate
- brief
- changeable
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- fleeting
- for the moment
- for the time
- pro tem
- temporarily
- conditional
- dependent
- ephemeral
- experimental
- interim
- limited
- makeshift
- passing
- pro tem
- provisionary
- codicillary
- contingent
- depending on
- fortuitous
- granted on certain terms
- guarded
- iffy
- incidental
- inconclusive
- limited
- about-face
- alter
- blow hot and cold
- bottom out
- budge
- change
- change gears
- cook
- deviate
- dial back
- abbreviate
- abbreviated
- aphoristic
- bare
- boiled down
- breviloquent
- brief
- compendiary
- compendious
- compressed
- brief
- deciduous
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- fleeting
- fly-by-night
- fugacious
- fugitive
- gone in a heartbeat
- impermanent
- clumsy
- haphazard
- hasty
- heedless
- improvident
- irresponsible
- lackadaisical
- lax
- messy
- negligent
- Band-Aid
- emergency
- expedient
- impromptu
- improvised
- makeshift
- practical
- provisional
- rough-and-ready
- rough-and-tumble
- acting
- additional
- alternate
- another
- artificial
- backup
- counterfeit
- dummy
- ersatz
- experimental
- arbitrary
- boiled down
- breviloquent
- brief
- compact
- compacted
- compendiary
- compendious
- condensed
- cursory
- accumulation
- amount
- backlog
- cache
- fund
- hoard
- inventory
- number
- quantity
- reservoir
- abettor
- accessory
- accomplice
- adherent
- adjunct
- aide
- ally
- appointee
- apprentice
- associate
- brief
- changeable
- deciduous
- emigrating
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- flash
- fleeting
- flitting
- fly-by-night
- impermanent
- momentary
- temporal
- transient
- boundless
- capricious
- chancy
- enormous
- erratic
- fluctuant
- iffy
- immense
- incomputable
- inestimable
- ambiguous
- borderline
- capricious
- changeable
- dizzy
- dubious
- erratic
- fickle
- fitful
- fluctuating
- airy
- buoyant
- capricious
- effervescent
- elastic
- elusive
- ephemeral
- erratic
- expansive
- fickle
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