🧑‍🦱 A stray hair 🎈 Unpredictable behavior 💨 Loose and light

flyaway

5.2

Loose and light so it moves easily in the wind

adjective
/ˈflaɪəˌweɪ/

: despeinado

Adding humidity to dry indoor air can help combat dry, flyaway hair.
flyaway hair

Examples

Though no one but Selkirk appeared to notice, her flyaway golden hair now spun like a rich crown.

Fiction book (1991)
Her flyaway hair and dirty knees indicated it had been a good day in kindergarten.
Color and bleach can dry out tresses, contributing to split ends and frizzy, flyaway hair.

Antonyms

flat

797 1.0

Level and even without parts higher or lower

secure

86 3.3

Firmly fixed so it will not move or break

How Airy

billowy

4 6.4

flyaway

5.2

flowing

1 3.7

loose

155 1.0

Surface Forms

flyaway positive

Morphology

flyaway = fly + away (transparent) = fly + away

The sense 'loose, light, tending to fly or be blown away' follows directly from the literal components 'fly' + 'away'.

Etymology

Flyaway comes from fly 'to move through the air' and away 'off from here'. It describes hair or clothes that are so light they lift and move in the wind, which is why they do not stay flat.