Synonyms for Flying | WordToolSet

Synonyms for "flying" (180 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (36)

Noun(5 words)

flightair travelairborne arc-boutant buttress

aeronautics agileair serviceairborne airline ascending astronautics aviation axial back back-flowing backward ballooningblind flyingbreakneck brittle capricious changeable cloud-seedingcommercial aviation

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contact flyingcorruptible cruising cursory dashing deciduous descending disappearing dissolvingdouble quick

Adjective(1 words)

airborne particle

Strong matches (54)

double-quick down-trending downward drifting dying eagle-winged ecstatic ephemeral evanescent evaporating expeditious express fading fast festinate feverish fickle fleet fleeting flight

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flitting flowing fluent flutteringfly-by-nightfragile frail fugacious fugitive furious gallopinggeneral aviationgliding going gyrational gyratoryhair triggerhair-trigger hasty headlong hovering hurried hustling immediate impermanent impetuous impulsive inconstant instant

Adjective(2 words)

fast fast-flying

Verb(1 words)

flighted

Noun(2 words)

flitter glide

Related words (90)

insubstantial jet-propelledlast minutelast-minutelight footedlight of heellight-footed lively melting mercurial momentary mortal mounting mutable nimblenimble footednimble-footed nondurable nonpermanenton the spot

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Noun(12 words)

movement by airoperate pilot rapid skyrocket soar speedy spike steer surge swift winged

Adjective(1 words)

quick

Verb(1 words)

volans

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

12 entries

airair travelairborne statearchitectural featureaviationflight propertyincrease locomotionmotion propertymovementspeed propertystructural element

More specific

14 entries

aircraft in flightarc-boutantbird in flightfast paceglide glidinggothic flying buttresshovering pilotrapid accelerationskyrocket soar soaring spike

Collocations

9 entries

flying buttressflying colorsflying droneflying fishflying insectflying machineflying saucerflying squadronflying start

Inflections

5 entries

flew flies flownmore flyingmost flying

Derivations

3 entries

flight fly flyer

similar

2 entries

hurried moving

Sample sentences

21 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Do you ever dream about flying through the sky?

Source: tatoeba (16198)

I saw a flock of birds flying aloft.

Source: tatoeba (18182)

A bat flying in the sky looks like a butterfly.

Source: tatoeba (18264)

It is difficult to shoot a bird flying in the air.

Source: tatoeba (18266)

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Flying