'Fleeting' definitions:
Definition of 'fleeting'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse" [syn: fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous, momentary]
Definition of 'Fleeting'
From: GCIDE
- Fleeting \Fleet"ing\, a. Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments.
- Syn: Evanescent; ephemeral. See Transient. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'fleeting'
From: GCIDE
- fleet \fleet\ (fl[=e]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. fleeted; p. pr. & vb. n. fleeting.] [OE. fleten, fleoten, to swim, AS. fle['o]tan to swim, float; akin to D. vlieten to flow, OS. fliotan, OHG. fliozzan, G. fliessen, Icel. flj[=o]ta to float, flow, Sw. flyta, D. flyde, L. pluere to rain, Gr. plei^n to sail, swim, float, Skr. plu to swim, sail. [root]84. Cf. Fleet, n. & a., Float, Pluvial, Flow.]
- 1. To sail; to float. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- And in frail wood on Adrian Gulf doth fleet. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance. [1913 Webster]
- All the unaccomplished works of Nature's hand, . . . Dissolved on earth, fleet hither. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Naut.) To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Naut.) To move or change in position; -- said of persons; as, the crew fleeted aft. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'fleeting'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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