Flyaway

Quick meaning: Flyaway is an adjective meaning Disposed to fly away; unrestrained; light and free.

Meaning

Disposed to fly away; unrestrained; light and free.

More Meanings

1. Flighty; frivolous
2. (of hair) Soft, light, unruly, and difficult to set into a style.
3. A stray hair that is difficult to style.
4. Anything that is difficult to capture or restrain.
5. (gymnastics) A kind of dismount from bars that incorporates one or more flips or twists.
6. (television) A portable satellite television antenna.
7. A situation where an operator loses control of a drone.

Example Sentences

But Truth is such a flyaway, such a slyboots, so untransportable and unbarrelable a commodity, that it is as bad to catch as light.

Consequently, there is a swell of hair care regimens, including serums, gels, balms, creams and sprays promising moisture-rich curls, without frizz or flyaways.

[...] 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 [...].

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.

Word Forms

• fly-away
• flyaways

Synonyms for flyaway

Depending on context, synonyms include frivolous, loose, flighty.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include loose, flighty, frivolous, fly-away, footloose, abandoned.

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