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flight, flying

n. an instance of traveling by air; "flying was still an exciting adventure for him"

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fast-flying, flying

adj. moving swiftly; "fast-flying planes"; "played the difficult passage with flying fingers"

flying, soaring

adj. capable of or engaged in flight; "the bat is a flying animal"

flying, quick, fast

adj. hurried and brief; "paid a flying visit"; "took a flying glance at the book"; "a quick inspection"; "a fast visit"

aeronautics, astronautics

n. the theory and practice of navigation through air or space

casual, cursory, passing(a), perfunctory

adj. hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy"

facile

adj. arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too facile a solution for so complex a problem"

haphazard, hit-or-miss

adj. dependent upon or characterized by chance; "a haphazard plan of action"; "his judgment is rather hit-or-miss"

impetuous

adj. marked by violent force; "impetuous heaving waves"

compendious, compact, succinct, summary

adj. briefly giving the gist of something; "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject"

superficial

adj. concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually; "superficial similarities"; "a superficial mind"; "his thinking was superficial and fuzzy"; "superficial knowledge"; "the superficial report didn't give the true picture"; "only superficial differences"

airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded, silly

adj. lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; "a dizzy blonde"; "light-headed teenagers"; "silly giggles"

aerial

adj. existing or living or growing or operating in the air; "aerial roots of a philodendron"; "aerial particles"; "small aerial creatures such as butterflies"; "aerial warfare"; "aerial photography"; "aerial cable cars"

aerial

adj. operating or moving in the air: "an aerial cable car"; "aerial combat"

alar, alary, aliform, wing-shaped

adj. having or resembling wings

alate, alated

adj. (of seeds or insects) having winglike extensions; "alate leaves"; "alate seeds of a maple tree"

batwing

adj. formed or shaped like a bat's wing; "a dress with batwing sleeves"

brachypterous, short-winged

adj. (especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings

pinioned

adj. (of birds) especially having the flight feathers

swift

adj. moving very fast; "fleet of foot"; "the fleet scurrying of squirrels"; "a swift current"; "swift flight of an arrow"; "a swift runner"

volant(ip)

adj. with wings extended in a flying position

hasty

adj. excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell"

hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitous

adj. done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"

helter-skelter, pell-mell

adj. with undue hurry and confusion; "a helter-skelter kind of existence with never a pause"; "a pell-mell dash for the train"

rush(a), rushed

adj. done under pressure; "a rush job"

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