Vernal vs Ephemeral - What's the difference?
vernal | ephemeral |
Pertaining to spring.
Young; fresh. (rfex)
Belonging to youth.
* Thomson
* Keble
Lasting for a short period of time.
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* Sir J. Stephen
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(biology) Existing for only one day, as with some flowers, insects, and diseases.
(geology, of a body of water) Usually dry, but filling with water for brief periods during and after precipitation.
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As a proper noun vernal
is a city in utah.As a noun ephemeral is
something which lasts for a short period of time.As an adjective ephemeral is
lasting for a short period of time.vernal
English
Alternative forms
* vernall “vernal, a.'' (and ''n.'')” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989)
Adjective
(en adjective)- when after the long vernal day of life
- And seems it hard thy vernal' years / Few ' vernal joys can show?
Usage notes
In everyday speech, used almost exclusively in phrase vernal equinox; in other contexts, spring is used attributively, as in spring colors'' or ''spring flowers, and even is frequently replaced with spring equinox.Antonyms
* autumnalCoordinate terms
* (pertaining to seasons) summer (summery), aestival/estival; winter (wintry), hibernal, brumalDerived terms
* prevernal * vernal-bearded * vernal conjunctivitis * vernal crocus * vernal cyclamen * vernal equinox, vernal equinoctial * vernal gentian * vernal grass * vernality * vernalization * vernalize * vernal keratoconjunctivitis * vernally * vernal orobus * vernal pool * vernal sandwort * vernal season * vernal sedge * vernal-seeming * vernal speedwell * vernal squill * vernal stargrass * vernal starwort * vernal-tincturedReferences
Anagrams
* ----ephemeral
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(wikipedia ephemeral)Synonyms
* (short-lived) ephemeronAdjective
(en adjective)- Esteem, lasting esteem, the esteem of good men, like himself, will be his reward, when the gale of ephemeral popularity shall have gradually subsided.
- sentences not of ephemeral , but of eternal, efficacy
- It was during an access of this kind that I suddenly left my home, and bending my steps towards the near Alpine valleys, sought in the magnificence, the eternity of such scenes, to forget myself and my ephemeral , because human, sorrows.
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- The graben constitutes a depositional basin and a topographic low, underlain by Cretaceous shales, in which volcanic debris accumulated in ephemeral lakes and streams in Oligocene and early Miocene time.