"short-lived" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ʃɔɹtˈlɪvd/ [US], /ʃɔɹtˈlaɪvd/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-short-lived.wav [US] Forms: shorter-lived [comparative], shortest-lived [superlative]
Etymology: From short + lived (“having a life, lifed”), equivalent to short + life + -ed. Compare Middle English short-livi, sort-levi (“short-lived”). Etymology templates: {{af|en|short|lived|t2=having a life, lifed}} short + lived (“having a life, lifed”), {{af|en|short|life|-ed}} short + life + -ed, {{cog|enm|short-livi}} Middle English short-livi, {{m|enm|sort-levi|t=short-lived}} sort-levi (“short-lived”) Head templates: {{en-adj|shorter-lived|sup=shortest-lived}} short-lived (comparative shorter-lived, superlative shortest-lived)
  1. Alive or existent for only a short period of time. Categories (topical): Radioactivity Translations (not existent for very long): ὀλιγόβιος (oligóbios) (Ancient Greek), βραχύβιος (brakhúbios) (Ancient Greek), кратък (kratǎk) (Bulgarian), мимолетен (mimoleten) (Bulgarian), 短暫 (Chinese Mandarin), 短暂 (duǎnzàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 短命 (duǎnmìng) (Chinese Mandarin), lyhytikäinen (Finnish), lyhytkestoinen (Finnish), kurzlebig (German), rövid életű (Hungarian), díomuan (Irish), duthain (Irish), gearrshaolach (Irish), 儚い (hakanai) (Japanese), rangitahi (Maori), kortlivet (Norwegian Bokmål), kortliva (Norwegian Nynorsk), кратковре́менный (kratkovrémennyj) (Russian), krȁtkotrājan (Serbo-Croatian), efímero (Spanish), de corta duración (Spanish), kortlivad (Swedish), kortvarig (Swedish), oesfyr (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-short-lived-en-adj-kOTqbPOr Disambiguation of Radioactivity: 49 51 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ed Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 78 22 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ed: 73 27 Disambiguation of 'not existent for very long': 93 7
  2. Of a radioisotope (or by extension radioelement): having a short half-life. Categories (topical): Radioactivity
    Sense id: en-short-lived-en-adj-xygKMgOx Disambiguation of Radioactivity: 49 51
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: shortlived Related terms: brief, fleeting, momentary

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}

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