Usually means: Briefly present for a short time.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. fleetingly: Merriam-Webster
  2. fleetingly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fleetingly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. fleetingly: Vocabulary.com
  5. Fleetingly, fleetingly: Wordnik
  6. fleetingly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. fleetingly: Wiktionary
  8. Fleetingly, fleetingly: Dictionary.com
  9. Fleetingly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. fleetingly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Fleetingly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. fleetingly: FreeDictionary.org
  13. fleetingly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fleetingly: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  in a fleeting manner; transiently

Similar:
transiently, momentarily, transitorily, ephemerally, flittingly, evanescently, briefly, glimmeringly, glancingly, flashly, more...

Types:
momentary, transient, ephemeral, fleeting, brief, passing, more...

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Similar:
transiently, momentarily, transitorily, ephemerally, flittingly, evanescently, briefly, glimmeringly, glancingly, flashly, more...

Types:
momentary, transient, ephemeral, fleeting, brief, passing, more...



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