Definition for Flying:

• In vbl senses; also or esp.: making movements like flight( f. -dog, kind of vampire- bat; f. Dutchman; f. fish, kinds rising into air by wing-like pectoral fins; f. fox, kinds of fruit-eating bat; f. man, airship navigator; f. squirrel, kinds floating in air by skin connecting fore& hind legs); hanging loose, fluttering, ( f. jib, light sail set before jib on f. jib-boom with f. COLOUR s); done or taken in passing( f. jump, with running start; f. handicap, mile., start, in which starting-post is passed at full speed); passing, hasty, ( f. visit); temporary( f. bridge); designed for rapid movement( f. squadron, column); f. buttress, slanting from pier &c. to wall& usu. carried on arch.

Synonyms for Flying:

• adj.

  •hasty (adjective)
  • darting,
  • urgent,
  • galloping,
  • brisk,
  • hasty,
  • abrupt,
  • pelting,
  • bustling,
  • impatient,
  • breathless,
  • speedy,
  • breakneck,
  • dashing,
  • feverish.
  •high (adjective)
  • soaring.
  •in the air, winged (adjective)
  • flapping,
  • express,
  • gliding,
  • floating,
  • volant,
  • Winging,
  • drifting,
  • volitant,
  • streaming,
  • airborne.

• n.

  •
  • expeditious,
  • airline.
  •
  • aerobatics.
  •flying (noun)
  • fluttering,
  • flaring,
  • mobile,
  • hurried,
  • running,
  • waving,
  • fast-flying,
  • winged,
  • moving,
  • aflare.
  •navigation (noun)
  • pilotage.

• v.

  •disappearing (verb)
  • fleeing,
  • fading,
  • Evanescing,
  • departing,
  • going,
  • vanishing,
  • Evaporating,
  • sinking,
  • hiding,
  • disappearing,
  • dissolving,
  • melting.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • blowing.
  •
  • short.
  •
  • brief.
  •
  • wing.
  •floating
  • Hovering.
  •Other relevant words:
  • legion,
  • Planing,
  • active,
  • flaming,
  • space travel,
  • sortie,
  • army,
  • hair-trigger,
  • rhapsodic,
  • dissipated,
  • happy valley,
  • Flitting,
  • corruptible,
  • garrison,
  • bright,
  • dash off,
  • bonfire,
  • curiosity,
  • insubstantial,
  • cry,
  • acrobatics,
  • racing,
  • Rara Avis,
  • track,
  • cohort,
  • dying,
  • zippy,
  • rush,
  • winnow,
  • rapturous,
  • retrogressive,
  • riotous,
  • terrain flight,
  • barred,
  • flier,
  • Aerostatics,
  • palpitating,
  • volatile,
  • impetuous,
  • lightning,
  • steeple chase,
  • drugged,
  • rocketry,
  • fanfare,
  • carry the day,
  • hybrid,
  • talk,
  • gleeful,
  • monster,
  • Cruising,
  • ascending,
  • fly about,
  • subdivision,
  • slap-bang,
  • cantilevered,
  • detract,
  • shun,
  • frail,
  • diminish,
  • demonstration,
  • festinate,
  • instant,
  • triumph,
  • section,
  • detachment,
  • snappy,
  • half-caste,
  • sailplaning,
  • black sheep,
  • low level flight,
  • round pace,
  • thrilled,
  • rocket-propelled,
  • nonconformist,
  • drop,
  • triumphal arch,
  • immediate,
  • half-breed,
  • salvo,
  • pell-mell,
  • dwindle,
  • Lusus Naturae,
  • pageantry,
  • rank,
  • excited,
  • fall,
  • escape,
  • picket,
  • transitive,
  • fluent,
  • colorfast,
  • Transported,
  • loyal,
  • regressive,
  • Eagle-winged,
  • launch,
  • deduct,
  • host,
  • leaving,
  • Battalia,
  • balloon,
  • agile,
  • exhibition,
  • shifting,
  • awing,
  • precipitate,
  • millennium,
  • fly,
  • stunt flying,
  • superficial,
  • flight of steps,
  • aircraft,
  • on cloud nine,
  • lessen,
  • electric,
  • roam,
  • Balloonery,
  • pageant,
  • field day,
  • miracle,
  • illuminations,
  • Aliped,
  • column,
  • nonesuch,
  • wandering,
  • progressive,
  • rotary,
  • momentaneous,
  • telegraphic,
  • degraded,
  • run away,
  • jet-propelled,
  • strapping,
  • spanking,
  • flypast,
  • bruit,
  • profligate,
  • course,
  • company,
  • original,
  • operate,
  • rotational,
  • happy,
  • delirious,
  • mulatto,
  • squadron,
  • hearsay,
  • headlong,
  • Rapid-fire,
  • gadarene,
  • passing,
  • phalanx,
  • nonsuch,
  • buzz,
  • piquet,
  • mongrel,
  • enraptured,
  • ambiguous,
  • unstable,
  • review,
  • Volitation,
  • mule,
  • exposition,
  • enchanted,
  • Plunging,
  • pie-in-the-sky,
  • burst out,
  • spasmodic,
  • Airer,
  • win the day,
  • general aviation,
  • allay,
  • impulsive,
  • delighted,
  • Nympholeptic,
  • prompt,
  • zonked,
  • pipe dream,
  • orgasmic,
  • fly-by-night,
  • battery,
  • temporal,
  • debauched,
  • cloud-seeding,
  • trajectory,
  • orbiting,
  • run,
  • reckless,
  • overjoyed,
  • spurt,
  • blazing,
  • metis,
  • alleviate,
  • orbital mechanics,
  • overhasty,
  • back,
  • platoon,
  • flee,
  • quickly,
  • flight of stairs,
  • last-minute,
  • wander,
  • taking off,
  • sideward,
  • procession,
  • squad,
  • merveille,
  • score a success,
  • degenerate,
  • temporary,
  • hermaphrodite,
  • half blood,
  • gallivant,
  • curtail,
  • hinny,
  • nonpermanent,
  • rushed,
  • set out,
  • flyover,
  • file,
  • over the moon,
  • prodigy,
  • sailing,
  • thieve,
  • wonder,
  • cursory,
  • Tertium Quid,
  • departure,
  • inconstant,
  • astronautics,
  • feathered,
  • changeable,
  • backward,
  • downward,
  • character,
  • blind flying,
  • nimble,
  • get away,
  • cock-a-hoop,
  • successfully,
  • Hustling,
  • salute,
  • Fame,
  • snap,
  • fickle,
  • commercial aviation,
  • race,
  • gyrational,
  • regiment,
  • bolted,
  • gala,
  • upward,
  • assuage,
  • report,
  • transitory,
  • spectacle,
  • rotatory,
  • corps,
  • mitigate,
  • flighted,
  • flowing,
  • flittering,
  • dissolute,
  • burning,
  • ballooning,
  • short-lived,
  • table talk,
  • fairyland,
  • excursion,
  • battalion,
  • axial,
  • mortal,
  • nondescript,
  • air service,
  • brigade,
  • elapse,
  • glad,
  • dash,
  • guard,
  • spry,
  • nondurable,
  • show,
  • Aerostation,
  • cut,
  • Refluent,
  • hell-for-leather,
  • Eavesdropping,
  • take by storm,
  • canard,
  • exhilarated,
  • tomfoolery,
  • depreciate,
  • impair,
  • with flying colors,
  • drive-by,
  • promenade,
  • airmanship,
  • ephemeral,
  • hot,
  • take off,
  • pinion,
  • rip off,
  • immovable,
  • lift off,
  • mutable,
  • brittle,
  • black swan,
  • swimmingly,
  • Unenduring,
  • slapdash,
  • hope,
  • division,
  • dizzy,
  • rising,
  • smart,
  • scandal,
  • descending,
  • celebration,
  • run off,
  • abate,
  • Gyratory,
  • capricious,
  • beside oneself,
  • perishable,
  • straightaway,
  • furious,
  • Light-legged,
  • flourish of trumpets,
  • orbit,
  • flared,
  • ecstatic,
  • rumor,
  • fragile,
  • warm,
  • slippery,
  • crossbreed,
  • immobile,
  • lively,
  • novel.

Paraphrases for Flying:

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    airways.
  • Noun, plural
    airfares, Carriers, flocks, Missions, charters, trips, logs, patterns, routes, Thieves, losers, Rapes, paras, Aircrafts.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    fleeing, Lifting, airlifting, self-contained, hanging, leaving, Fledging, Flushing, departing, walking, operating, skywriting, hestealing, arriving, journey, gliding, Migrating, Facilitating, proceeding, Navigating, rolling, Propagating, drifting, Everybody, completing, Displaying, constituted, seafaring, performing, penetrating, Carrying, riding, conducting, falling, Brandishing, moving, undertaking, Specifying, scattering, rotating, Shouldering, breaking, fighting, lying, attending, Managing, commissioning, shifting, blowing, crossing, Outlining, sliding, concealing, Inserting, Amongst, incoming, entering, file, whistling, Selecting, featuring, presence, soaring, struggling, Containing, Waltzing, Comprising, arranging, campaigning, heightening, intruding, directing, Roaming, Establishing, Preparing, seagoing, overhanging, leading, leads, Defeating, Battling, enabling, assuming, Wielding, Undergoing, standing, use, being, browsing, approaching, rushing, coming, bringing, striving, between, Escaping, Proposing, Effecting, Allowing, Consisting, beneath, underneath, force, Hoisting, incurring, wearing, happening, spreading, Choosing, on-board, Depending, missing, erecting, listing, guiding, joining, Linking, hitting, returning, Permitting, training, bearing, Intending, shipping, rendering, Providing, setting, reaching, reviewing, Assessing, boating, rising, starting, covering, drawing, raising, exiting, projected, beat, beating, Robbing, low, ordering, heading, going, seeking, wishing, super, pounding, running, waving, Pegging, taking, Having, \, wanting, drinking, cutting, getting, Doing, making.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    flight, flights, warplanes, soars, leaflets, flies, fly.
  • Noun, plural
    overflights, jets, airmen, sorties, rip-offs, break-ins, Robberies, Thefts, passages, flights, warplanes, fly.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    flight, fly.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Overflying, floating, fluttering, sailing, visiting, circling, empty.

Antonyms for Flying:

• adj.

  • in the air, winged
    ground, Grounded, slow.
  • Other antonyms:
    forethoughtful, deliberate, long-term, permanent, calculated, enduring, imperishable, foresighted, prolonged, hesitating, unfading, calculating, eternal, persistent, perpetual, extended, lasting, hesitant, drawn-out, late, abiding, immortal, unmoving, faltering, plodding, everlasting, measured, nonmoving, undying, lingering, tentative, circumspect, shilly-shallying.

Hypernym for Flying:

• n.

  • act
    gliding, ballooning, soaring, pass, glide, aerobatics, low level flight, sailplaning, solo, flyover, sailing, stunting, fly-by, stunt flying, overflight, flypast, blind flying, blind landing, maiden flight, acrobatics, sortie, terrain flight.

Hyponym for Flying:

• n.

  • act
    air, aviation, air travel.