Meaning of FLEETING
| Pronunciation: | | 'fleeting
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- [adj] lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse"
- [adj] moving or passing by very swiftly; "fleeting clouds passing before the face of the moon"
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| | Synonyms: | | fugitive, momentaneous, momentary, moving, short |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fleet"ing\, a.
Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as,
the fleeting hours or moments.
Syn: Evanescent; ephemeral. See {Transient}.
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| | Related Terms: | | abrupt, blunt, brief, brittle, brusque, capricious, changeable, compendious, corruptible, crusty, curt, deciduous, disappearing, dissolving, dying, ephemeral, evanescent, evaporating, fading, fickle, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, gruff, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, insubstantial, laconic, melting, momentary, mortal, mutable, nondurable, nonpermanent, passing, perishable, short, short and sweet, short-lived, snippety, snippy, succinct, temporal, temporary, terse, transient, transitive, transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable, vanishing, volatile |
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