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Showing words for FLEETING using the English dictionary

8 Letter Words for Fleeting

fleeting

7 Letter Words for Fleeting

eligent, feeling, felting, fengite, fleeing, gefilte, gentile, neftgil

6 Letter Words for Fleeting

eeling, elegit, elfing, enfile, engilt, enlief, enlife, feeing, feline, fenite, feting, figent, finlet, fleing, gentil, gentle, gilten, ginete, infelt, leeing, lenite, linget, teeing, tingle

5 Letter Words for Fleeting

eigne, elfin, elint, elite, engle, enlit, feign, feint, fient, filet, fleet, fling, flint, flite, genet, genie, genit, gilet, gleen, gleet, gleit, glene, glent, glift, glint, ingle, inlet, intel, lefte, legin, legit, lenti, liege, lifen, ligne, linge, nifle, teleg, tenge, tinge

4 Letter Words for Fleeting

eine, elne, engl, eten, feel, feet, feil, fele, felt, feni, fent, fete, fiel, file, filt, fine, flee, fleg, flet, flit, geet, gein, geit, gene, genl, gent, gien, gift, gile, gilt, gite, glee, glei, glen, glit, infl, intl, itel, leef, leet, left, lege, lene, leng, lent, lete, lief, lien, life, lift, lige, line, ling, lint, lite, neet, neif, nete, neti, nief, nife, nile, teel, teen, teil, tele, teli, tene, teng, tien, tige, tile, tine, ting

3 Letter Words for Fleeting

eeg, eel, een, efl, eft, elf, eli, elt, ene, eng, enl, fee, fei, fen, fet, fgn, fie, fig, fil, fin, fit, flt, gee, gel, gen, get, gie, gif, gin, git, glt, gte, ife, ign, ile, inf, ing, int, lee, leg, lei, let, lie, lif, lig, lin, lit, nee, nef, neg, nei, net, nie, nig, nil, nit, tee, tef, teg, tel, ten, tgn, tie, tig, til, tin, tln, tng

Definitions for Fleeting

[1] passing swiftly; vanishing quickly; transient; transitory: fleeting beauty; a fleeting glance.
[2] swift; rapid: to be fleet of foot; a fleet horse.
[3] to move swiftly; fly.
[4] Nautical . to change position; shift.
[5] Archaic . to glide along like a stream. to fade; vanish.
[6] Obsolete . to float; drift; swim.
[7] to cause (time) to pass lightly or swiftly.
[8] Nautical . to move or change the position of. to separate the blocks of (a tackle). to lay (a rope) along a deck.
[9] rapid and transient a fleeting glimpse of the sea
[10] a number of warships organized as a tactical unit
[11] all the warships of a nation
[12] a number of aircraft, ships, buses, etc, operating together or under the same ownership
[13] rapid in movement; swift
[14] poetic fleeting; transient
[15] (intr) to move rapidly
[16] (intr) archaic to fade away smoothly; glide
[17] (tr) nautical to change the position of (a hawser) to pass (a messenger or lead) to a hawser from a winch for hauling in to spread apart (the blocks of a tackle)
[18] (intr) obsolete to float or swim
[19] (tr) obsolete to cause (time) to pass rapidly
[20] mainly Southeast English a small coastal inlet; creek
[21] a stream that formerly ran into the Thames between Ludgate Hill and Fleet Street and is now a covered sewer
[22] Also called: Fleet Prison (formerly) a London prison, esp used for holding debtors

Words related to Fleeting

short-lived, ephemeral, transitory, sudden, cursory, fading, momentary, passing, flying, flitting, short, evanescent, fugitive, impermanent, meteoric, temporary, volatile, fugacious

Words nearby Fleeting

fleet ballistic missile submarine, fleet chief petty officer, fleet rate, fleet street, fleet-footed, fleeting, fleetwood, flegel's disease, flegenheimer, flehmen, fleishig

Origin of Fleeting

2before 900; Middle English fleten to be fleet, Old English flēotan to float; see float

Other words from Fleeting

fleet·ing·ly , adverb
fleet·ing·ness , noun
un·fleet·ing , adjective
fleet·ly , adverb
fleet·ness , noun

Word origin for Fleeting

Old English flēot flowing water; see fleet 1

Synonyms for Fleeting

cursory, ephemeral, fading, momentary, short-lived, sudden, transitory, flitting, flying, passing, short, vanishing, evanescent, flash in the pan, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, meteoric, temporary, volatile