Definition of flying
- flying feet
- a flying leap
- a flying squad car
- a flying club
- a flying kilometer
a story about a flying car
a flying attempt at finishing the work
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before 12th century
cursory, hasty, headlong, helter-skelter, hurried, overhasty, pell-mell, precipitate, precipitous, rash, rushed;
calculated, calculating, measured;
circumspect, foresighted, forethoughtful;
drawn-out, extended, long-term, prolonged;
faltering, hesitant, hesitating, tentative;
dallying, dawdling, laggard, leisurely, poky (or pokey), shilly-shallying, slow;
headstrong, heady, hotheaded, impatient, impetuous, impulsive, madcap, reckless, unadvised;
horseback, impromptu, makeshift, offhand, offhanded, off-the-cuff, rush, slapdash, snap, spontaneous, spur-of-the-moment;
had never had the slightest fear of flying
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1548
: moving or able to move in the air
: the activity of traveling in an aircraft
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