Usually means: Existing or lasting a brief time.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. short-lived: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. short-lived: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. short-lived: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. short-lived, short-lived: Collins English Dictionary
  5. short-lived: Vocabulary.com
  6. Short-Lived, Short-lived, short-lived: Wordnik
  7. short-lived: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. short-lived: Wiktionary
  9. short-lived: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. short-lived: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. short-lived: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. short-lived: Dictionary.com
  13. short-lived: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. short-lived: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Short-lived: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. short-lived: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. short-lived: Rhymezone
  18. Short-lived: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. short-lived: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. short-lived: Free Dictionary
  21. short-lived: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. short-lived: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. short-lived: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. short-lived: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. short-lived: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Alive or existent for only a short period of time.
adjective:  Of a radioisotope (or by extension radioelement): having a short half-life.

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