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flyaway

flyaway

3 4.6
A small hair that sticks out and does not lie flat
  • noun
  • /ˈflaɪəˌweɪ/
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  • After styling, I used a product to tame the flyaway strands that kept sticking out from my hair.
  • flyaway hair
  • flyaway strands
  • tame flyaways

Bonus, you can use this for flyaways in a pinch.

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Examples

  • Just to smooth any flyaways and give my hair a gorgeous glossy finish.

  • "I have flyaway hair."

    Fiction book (1992)
  • She had a light step and flyaway hair.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • It mostly lay flyaway around her shoulders.

    Blog text (29)
  • The three patches of white hair on his otherwise bald head were mussed and flyaway.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • It is a woman with a frenzied look and flyaway hair.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • I would just say that's my hair and I would usually just kind of go in with like a flyaway spray or styling cream just to tidy it up.

  • I'm gonna tame my flyaways by using the Octavio Molina Hair Asafe, the Argon Oil.

  • She was a skinny beanpole now, with long curly flyaway hair that was always in her eyes and a close-lipped smile she used to try to cover the mouthful of braces on her teeth.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • There was Charlie-One as he might have appeared as a human: a trifle pudgy and world-weary, with thinning flyaway hair, but a gleam in the eye and a quip on his tongue.

    Fiction book (1994)

Synonyms

strand of hair
vsflyaway
9 1.0

A thin piece of hair

is a small filament that sticks out and does not lie flat

Antonyms

256 1.0

A surface that is even and not rough

Kept within limits by careful management

Surface Forms

flyaway singular
flyaways plural

Etymology

Flyaway comes from fly 'to move through the air' and away 'off from here'. A flyaway hair is a single little hair that 'flies away' from the rest and sticks out.