vverb.motionmove along rapidly and lightly; skim or dartSynset:dart fleet flit flutter
Examples:- The hummingbird flitted among the branches
Derivationally Related Form:flutterdartflit
Hypernyms:hurry speed travel rapidly zip
Inherited Hypernyms:flittravel rapidlytravel
Direct Hyponyms:butterfly
Full Troponyms:butterfly
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s | Something is ---ing PP | Somebody ---s PP | The crowds --- in the streets (apply to: flutter) | The streets --- with crowds (apply to: flutter)
vverb.changedisappear graduallySynset:blow over evanesce fade fleet pass pass off
Examples:- The pain eventually passed off
Derivationally Related Form:passingevanescentevanescence
Hypernyms:disappear go away vanish
Inherited Hypernyms:evanescedisappear
Sentence Frame:Something ---s | Something is ---ing PP
adj satadj.alllasting for a markedly brief timeSynset:fugitive momentaneous momentary
Examples:- a fleeting glance
- fugitive hours
- rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass
- a momentary glimpse
Antonyms:long
Derivationally Related Form:fleetingnessmoment
Inherited Hypernyms:fleeting
Similar to:short