Fleet Synonyms and Antonyms

flēt
Characterized by great celerity
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. fast
  2. swift
  3. rapid
  4. speedy
  5. breakneck
  6. expeditious
  7. quick
  8. hell-for-leather
Antonyms:
  1. slow
  2. clumsy
Lasting or existing only for a short time
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. ephemeral
  2. evanescent
  3. fleeting
  4. fugacious
  5. fugitive
  6. momentary
  7. passing
  8. short-lived
  9. temporal
  10. temporary
  11. transient
  12. transitory
Moving swiftly and nimbly.
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. fast

Words Related to Fleet

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Fleet Sentence Examples

  • There's a fleet of nice ladies at the courthouse that are always happy to help.

  • The fleet sailed in May 1787, and arrived off the Australian coast early in the following January.

  • Buenos Aires was in 1838 blockaded by a French fleet; but Rosas stood firm.

  • Memnon the Rhodian, now in supreme command of the Persian fleet, saw the European coasts exposed and set out to raise Greece, where discontent always smouldered in Alexander's rear.

  • There are other indications, too, of the importance of the Aeginetan fleet in the Greek scheme of defence.

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