fleeting Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart
    flit; dart; flutter; fleet.
    • The hummingbird flitted among the branches
  2. verb disappear gradually
    blow over; fade; pass; evanesce; fleet; pass off.
    • The pain eventually passed off
  3. adjective satellite lasting for a markedly brief time
    momentaneous; fugitive; momentary.
    • a fleeting glance
    • fugitive hours
    • rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass
    • a momentary glimpse

WordNet

Fleet"ing adjective
Definitions
  1. Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments. Syn. -- Evanescent; ephemeral. See Transient.

Webster 1913