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flier

flier is the comparative form of fly.

flier is the alternative form of flyer.

Meaning of fly

Adjective

fly (comparative flier or flyer, superlative fliest or flyest)

  1. (dated, slang) Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.
    • be assured, O man of sin—pilferer of small wares and petty larcener—that there is an eye within keenly glancing from some loophole contrived between accordions and tin breastplates that watches your every movement, and is "fly,"— to use a term peculiarly comprehensible to dishonest minds—to the...1854, Charles Dickens, “Household Words”, in Arcadia, volume 7, page 381
  2. (slang) Clandestine, surreptitious
    • Some say God was an alien that tampered with our DNA, the 3 kings followed ufos & Mary had a fly shag 🤔🤫2023 December 1, @Davo_Mack, Twitter
  3. (slang) Well dressed, smart in appearance; in style, cool.
    • He's pretty fly.
  4. (slang) Beautiful; displaying physical beauty.
    • [Rahiem] My name brings peace and tranquility / So all the fly ladies' hearts can run free1979, “We Rap More Mellow”, performed by The Younger Generation

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Meaning of flyer

Noun

flyer (plural flyers)

  1. That which flies, as a bird or insect.
  2. A machine that flies.
  3. (dated) An airplane pilot.
    Synonyms:
    aviator, aviatrix
  4. A person who travels by airplane.
  5. A leaflet, often for advertising.
    Synonyms:
    circular, leaflet
  6. The part of a spinning machine that twists the thread as it takes it to and winds it on the bobbin

See all 18 meanings of flyer

Forms of flier

Noun
pluralfliers
Verb
third-person singular presentfliers
present participlefliering
past participlefliered
pastfliered

Origin of flier

From fly + -er (comparative suffix).

From fly + -er (agent noun suffix).

Words formed from flier

Phrases with flier

Words that rhyme with flier

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Questions about flier

What is flier the comparative form of?
Flier is the comparative form of fly.

Words near flier in the dictionary

  1. flids
  2. flie
  3. flied
  4. flied out
  5. Flieden
  6. flier
  7. fliered
  8. fliering
  9. Flieringa ring
  10. Flieringa rings
  11. fliers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flier (page history and authors); fly (page history and authors); flyer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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