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What is the adjective for fleets?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb fleet which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

fleet
  1. (literary) Swift in motion; light and quick in going from place to place
  2. (uncommon) Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The males are quite fleet of foot after the wooing season is over, as they are thin and active, and so wary that it is difficult to approach them.”
      “She tapped furiously, the fleet movement of her thumbs across her phone screen being almost a blur.”
fleeting
fleeter
  1. comparative form of fleet: more fleet
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “There had been times when Ghana seemed fleeter of foot, a shade more imaginative than Germany, but many times when German power prevailed.”
      “McLeod made a desperate effort to get into the running, but Willard was fleeter.”
      “That experience, he says, is why he wants to break down GSK's research teams into smaller, fleeter units that compete for funding.”
fleetest
  1. superlative form of fleet: most fleet
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Largest and fleetest are the red kangaroos of the wide open plains of inland Australia.”
      “The dromedary that brought me here is the fleetest in all the land of Shinar.”
      “Father Time flew in his fleetest fashion, but no one of the group paid the slightest attention to the fact.”
fleeted
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