flying
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flying |
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aeronautics, agile, air
service, airborne, airline, ascending, astronautics, aviation, axial, back-flowing, back, backward, ballooning, blind flying, breakneck, brittle, capricious, changeable, cloud-seeding, commercial aviation, contact flying, corruptible, cruising, cursory, dashing, deciduous,
descending, disappearing, dissolving, double-quick, down-trending, downward, drifting, dying, eagle-winged, ephemeral, evanescent, evaporating, expeditious, express, fading, fast, festinate, feverish, fickle, fleet,
fleeting, flight, flitting, flowing, fluent, fluttering, fly-by-night, fragile,
frail, fugacious, fugitive, furious, galloping, general aviation, gliding, going, gyrational, gyratory, hair-trigger, hasty, headlong, hovering, hurried, hustling, immediate, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, instant, insubstantial, jet-propelled, last-minute, light-footed, light of heel, lively, melting, mercurial, momentary, mortal, mounting, mutable,
nimble-footed, nimble, nondurable,
nonpermanent, on the spot, passing, perishable, pilotage, plunging, precipitate, progressive, prompt, quick, quick as lightning, quick as thought, rapid, reckless, reflowing, refluent, regressive, retrogressive, rising, rocket-propelled, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running, rushing, sailing, sailplaning, short-lived, sideward, sinking, slap-bang, slapdash, snap, snappy, soaring, spanking, speedy, streaming, superficial, swift, temporal, temporary, transient, transitive, transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable, up-trending, upward, urgent, vanishing, volant, volatile, volitant, winged, winging
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Flying Dutchman |
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AB, Ahasuerus, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Brocken specter, Dylan, Goliard, Neptune, OD, Odysseus, Oisin, Ossian, Poseidon, Ulysses, Varuna, White Lady, Wild Hunt, able-bodied seaman, able seaman, bird of passage, bluejacket, buccaneer, deep-sea man, drifter, fair-weather sailor, fisherman, floater, gad, gadabout, go-about, hearty, itinerant, jack-tar, jack, jack afloat, jacky,
limey, lobsterman, mariner,
matelot, mover, navigator,
peregrinator, peregrine, peripatetic, pirate, privateer, rambler, roamer, rolling
stone, rover, runabout, sailor, salt, sea dog, sea rover, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, shipman, straggler, stroller, strolling player, tar, troubadour, viking, visitant, wanderer, wandering minstrel, wandering scholar, water dog, whaler, windjammer, windsailor
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flying start |
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A, advantage, alpha,
beginning, blast-off, bulge,
coign of vantage, commencement, creation, cutting edge, dawn, drop, edge, establishment, foundation, fresh start, head start, inside track, institution, jump-off, jump, kick-off, leading
edge, new departure, odds, oncoming,
onset, opening, origin, origination, outbreak, outset, running start, send-off,
setting-up, setting in motion, something extra, something in reserve, square one, start-off, start,
starting point, take-off, upper
hand, vantage, vantage ground, vantage point, whip hand
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high-flying |
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Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambitious, aspiring, bedizened, big-sounding, careerist, careeristic, classy, convoluted, declamatory, elevated, euphuistic, fancy, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, flossy,
fulsome, garish, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-reaching, high-sounding, high-toned, highfalutin, highfaluting, inkhorn, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, magniloquent, meretricious, on the
make, orotund, ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, pedantic, pompous, power-hungry, pretentious, rhetorical,
sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sky-aspiring, social-climbing, sonorous, stilted, tall, tony, tortuous, vaunting
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Main entries similar to: flying
aeronautics, agile, airline, ascending, astronautics,
axial, back, backward, ballooning, breakneck, brittle, capricious, changeable, corruptible, cruising, cursory, dashing, deciduous, descending, dissolving, double-quick, downward, drifting, dying, ecstatic, ephemeral, evanescent, expeditious, express, fading, fast, feverish, fickle,
fleet, fleeting, flight, flitting, flowing, fluent, fluttering, fly-by-night, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, furious, galloping, going, gyrational, hair-trigger, hasty, headlong, hurried, immediate, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, instant, insubstantial, last minute, light-footed, lively, melting, mercurial, momentary, mortal, mounting, mutable, nimble, nimble-footed, nonpermanent, on the spot,
passing, perishable, pilotage, plunging, precipitate, progressive, prompt, quick, rapid, reckless, refluent, regressive, retrogressive, rising, rotary, running, rushing, sailing, short-lived, sideward, sinking, slapdash, snap, snappy, soaring, spanking, speedy, streaming, superficial, swift, temporal, temporary, transient, transitive, transitory, undurable, unstable, upward, urgent, vanishing, volatile, winged
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