Ephemeral = Short lived, fleeting, usually used to describe something lovely that dies quickly.
Peripatetic = aimless, itinerant; one who walks... I've seen it used to describe a traveler's soul and/or to do something without consistancy or regimen, just as the moment takes you.
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Date: 2005-07-05 08:58 pm (UTC)Ephemeral = Short lived, fleeting, usually used to describe something lovely that dies quickly.
Peripatetic = aimless, itinerant; one who walks... I've seen it used to describe a traveler's soul and/or to do something without consistancy or regimen, just as the moment takes you.
Contumacious = opposing righful authority, obstinate,
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Saturnine = Morose, gloomy. I've also seen it used to indicate bookish (with heavy influence of morose, gloomy).
Erudite = Deeply read, learned.
Abstemious = Sparing in food or drink (or pleasures, as I've seen it used), temperate, sober.
And, to top it all off...
Contumelious = contemptuous, insolent, proudly rude. ;-)