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flyaway

flyaway

1 4.6
A small hair that sticks out and does not lie flat
  • noun
  • /ˈflaɪəˌweɪ/
: cabello rebelde
  • 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
20 1.0

A thin piece of hair

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

Antonyms

239 3.4

Kept within limits by careful management

224 1.0

A surface that is even and not rough

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.