lasting but a moment; very brief; fleeting: a momentary glimpse.
that might occur at any moment; ever impending: to live in fear of momentary annihilation.
effective or recurring at every moment; constant.
It is hardly a rejection of adulthood, rather a momentary escape from routine.
They are not the result of momentary negligence or incompetence.
Does this really sound like an event at the beginning of time when the universe experienced a momentary burst of expansion?
This, I confess, shamefully gave rise to momentary schadenfreude—even glee.
O Mr. Lockwood, I cannot express what a terrible start I got by the momentary view!
The dying man heard him attentively, and the words made a momentary impression.
This causes a momentary vacuum to be formed under the paper, and the pressure of the air above, which is about 15 lb.
There is a representation; it is inexact, because it is fragmentary and momentary.
Hazzard curled his lips in a faint, momentary grin of superiority.
"lasting a moment," mid-15c., from Latin momentarius "of brief duration," from momentum (see moment).