Fleeting

What do we mean by fleeting?

Passing quickly; ephemeral. adjective

Passing rapidly; hastening away; transient; not durable: as, the fleeting hours or moments.

Synonyms Transitory, etc. See transient.

Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory. adjective

Passing quickly. adjective

Present participle of fleet. verb

Lasting for a markedly brief time adjective

To float.

To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.

To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.

To flee, to escape, to speed away.

To evanesce, disappear, die out.

To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.

(of people) To move or change in position.

To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long.

To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.

To take the cream from; to skim.

-lasting for a very short time. -When something happens quickly or doesn't last as long as you'd like, it is described as being fleeting. Urban Dictionary

A term used to describe when someone is cleaning out their ass/vagina. Urban Dictionary

A brand name of enemas...where the term "Fleeting" comes from, regarding colon cleansing. Urban Dictionary

A cool person who is incredibly fresh and has people that want to be fly like them the term was originated in Marcy Projects BK, NYC... Urban Dictionary

The Fleet is a mythical creature that supposedly exists inside the Marine Corps after training. This is where things are supposed to get easier and a tad less stresseful. The existence of the fleet has been proven a lie and does in fact not exist. Urban Dictionary

To excrete one's feces via natural anatomical and physiological bodily functions. Urban Dictionary

Fleet is a thing on Twitter that is basically just snap chat so you can share anything you want and then it disappears in 24hours Urban Dictionary

To have your plans vetoed last minute by an individual with a wimpy excuse. Urban Dictionary

Meaning: on point, like a boss, sexy, relevant (a way to compliment something or someone) Origin: Autocorrect mistake . Instead of writing on fleek, ON FLEET! Internet took over and turned it into a new catch phrase! Urban Dictionary

(adj) an word that can only be used to describe nouns that start with an "f," such as foxes, or foot (n) a group of flunchkins Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to fleeting:
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Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word fleeting:
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Words that rhyme with fleeting:
meeting, greeting, competing, beating, heating, cheating, seating, treating, completing, bleating, sheeting, overeating, repeating, depleting, overheating, meting, retreating, defeating, sleeting, sweeting, tweeting, keating, pleating, prayer meeting, deleting, unseating, town meeting, central heating, induction heating, race meeting, mistreating, board meeting, radiant heating, meat-eating, summit meeting, steam heating, mass meeting, military greeting, sense of the meeting, sports meeting, committee meeting, lunch meeting, luncheon meeting, panel heating, stockholders meeting, cherokee tongue, crea ting, creat ing, defeat hung, eat ing, feet hung, geeting, heat hung, heat ing, lee ting, lee tung, li ting, li tung, meat hung, meet ing, pete hung, seat hung, sheet hung, shih tung, smeeting, sweet tongue, tse tung, wieting, ye ting.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective fleeting:
moment, glimpse, moments, glance, thought, glimpses, smile, nature, instant, impression, life, impressions, vision, second, thoughts, breath, images, world, image, shadow, hours, look, shadows, hour, expression, pleasures, sense, thing, existence, things, reference, visit, memory, contact, character, appearance, pleasure, clouds, dream, experience, opportunity, joys, interest, references, beauty, seconds, appearances, attention, visits, show, memories, glances, feeling, phenomena, present, quality, visions, sensation, hope, encounters, dreams, joy, fancy, experiences, touch, presence, sensations, opportunities, happiness, fame, contacts, emotions, cloud, expressions, light, kiss, ideas, emotion, encounter, phenomenon, moods, pains, success, minutes, passion, impulse, illusion, glory, picture.

Consonant match to fleeting:
floating, flirting, flouting, flitting, fluting, flatting, flyting, flighting, flat tongue.

Words that sound like fleeting:
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