What does "flyaway" mean?
A stray hair that is difficult to style.
Flyaway
adj, noun
adj, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A stray hair that is difficult to style.
- Grammar: flyaway is listed as adj, noun.
- Nearest alternatives: air traveler, fickle, flighty, flighty.
- Useful contrasts: flat, homebody, neatly styled hair.
- Usage evidence: [...] and Lorene mumbled thanks, and slid out of the booth again, a big boned, pretty girl with a tiny pearl glinting above her eye and flyaway streaked hair [...].
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A stray hair that is difficult to style.
"Consequently, there is a swell of hair care regimens, including serums, gels, balms, creams and sprays promising moisture-rich curls, without frizz or flyaways."
- 2 Anything that is difficult to capture or restrain.
"But Truth is such a flyaway, such a slyboots, so untransportable and unbarrelable a commodity, that it is as bad to catch as light."
- 3 A kind of dismount from bars that incorporates one or more flips or twists.
- 4 A portable satellite television antenna.
"Unless the TV crew has its own flyaway, the locals can still defeat a story they couldn't prevent reporters from covering by cutting it off at the pass, when it is being birded through their facilities."
- 5 A situation where an operator loses control of a drone.
""But the Civil Aviation Authority is very worried about 'flyaway' - if someone has bought a GPS jammer on eBay because they don't want drones near their house, it can cause drones to get completely lost and shoot off in a random direction until they run out of battery."
Adjective
- 1 Disposed to fly away; unrestrained; light and free. not-comparable
- 2 Flighty; frivolous not-comparable
- 3 Soft, light, unruly, and difficult to set into a style. not-comparable
"[...] and Lorene mumbled thanks, and slid out of the booth again, a big boned, pretty girl with a tiny pearl glinting above her eye and flyaway streaked hair [...]."
Adjective
- 1 (of hair or clothing) worn loose wordnet
- 2 guided by whim and fancy wordnet
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
"[...] and Lorene mumbled thanks, and slid out of the booth again, a big boned, pretty girl with a tiny pearl glinting above her eye and flyaway streaked hair [...]."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "flyaway"?
Common synonyms include: air traveler, fickle, flighty, flighty, frequent traveler, frizzy.
How do you use "flyaway" in a sentence?
[...] and Lorene mumbled thanks, and slid out of the booth again, a big boned, pretty girl with a tiny pearl glinting above her eye and flyaway streaked hair [...].
Etymology
From fly + away.