Impermanent [adjective]

It was not his fault if at first some extremely unsound and impermanent shanties were run up on the vacant site.

Professor Baker "tries in the light of historical practice to distinguish the permanent from the impermanent in technic."

In fact, it wasn't solid anything, being mostly of a very impermanent structure and style.

Under his protection Mrs. Vervain set up her impermanent household gods.

Gautama Buddha taught that everything corporeal is material and therefore impermanent.

This book tries in the light of historical practice merely to distinguish the permanent from the impermanent in technique.

Change is impermanent—therefore transitory change is merely the expression of want of tone in the political health of a people.

All conditions are impermanent, and so, in the profounder sense, unreal.

In such moments the thoughts that visited her were impermanent and fleeting.

The necessity to counteract by impermanent sojourn the permanence of arrest.