short-lived

Bedeutung (Englisch)

  1. Alive or existent for only a short period of time.
  2. Of a radioisotope (or by extension radioelement): having a short half-life.

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Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/ʃɔɹtˈlɪvd/
Etymologie (Englisch)

In summary

From short + lived (“having a life, lifed”), equivalent to short + life + -ed. Compare Middle English short-livi, sort-levi (“short-lived”).

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