to flitter
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6.9
- verb
- /ˈflɪtər/
- Have you ever seen a moth around the light outside how it flitters around like that?
Examples
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We cannot quite envision the whole, so we flitter around wasting energy and tearing up the place, which will likely lead to our own undoing.
Blog text (4) -
Nice young ladies just don't swim around rescuing people... in the middle of the ocean, and then flitter off into oblivion like some--
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Birds frisk and flitter and whistle and sing.
Fiction book (1998) -
Have you ever seen a moth around the light outside, how it flitters around like that?
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You'll flitter-fly from tree to tree.
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They flitter downward, settling on the worn wooden planks of the floor as she flees into the family room.
Fiction book (1999) -
He had begun with a standard base to flitter, but a fearful certainty as to whom he was trying to contact soon changed that to a more direct and fervent approach.
Fiction book (1998) -
Oh, Flitter Queen—you make me think that the real gift isn't so much whether we flitter or hunker down to one project at a time as it is to be open to possibility, as you so delightfully put it.
Blog text (8) -
The butterflies flitter from flower to flower, gathering nectar.
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As the wind blew, the leaves began to flitter down from the trees.
Synonyms
104
2.8
To make very small, quick moves back and forth
80
1.4
To move up and down quickly, like wings or flags
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1.0
To move with small, quick movements from side to side or up and down
66
3.6
Move or shine in quick unsteady ways
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3.5
To move quickly and lightly back and forth, like wings or leaves
50
4.5
To shake in small, quick movements because of fear, cold, or excitement
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3.2
To move something in short, quick shaking movements
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4.8
To move or shake in a slight, unsteady way
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6.5
Move back and forth in a steady rhythm like a fan
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3.7
To move up and down quickly and lightly many times
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7.3
To make something move lightly and quickly across a surface, like a fishing lure
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7.0
To move lightly and irregularly through the air like a small insect with bright wings
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4.6
To move quickly in a worried or confused way
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8.9
To move unsteadily from side to side
Move back and forth a little before stopping
Antonyms
How Fast
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Flitter is like the everyday words flutter and flicker, which give the image of small, quick, light movement. So to flitter is to 'move back and forth' or 'flutter' lightly and quickly.