fluttering
1
3.0
- noun
- /ˈflʌtərɪŋ/
:
aleteo
- The fluttering of the paper in the gentle breeze caught my attention.
Examples
-
Such flutterings and spasms all over me.
-
They were both in white and the dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house.
-
We are stricken with the sudden glory; our voices rise and fall in quiet flutterings of delight, like dozing birds roused in our evening tree.
Academic text (1990) -
Now there were stabbing pains, twinges, flutterings—maybe it was normal everyday stuff amplified by the imagination or maybe it was real.
Fiction book (1992) -
She watched the fluttering of the butterflies as they danced from flower to flower.
-
In the wind, the flags were fluttering brightly against the clear blue sky.
Synonyms
73
3.2
A quick movement back and forth that makes something shake
23
2.0
A quick up and down movement, often made by wings
11
2.7
A quick, light repeated movement, like wings or leaves
7
4.4
A slight, fast shaking that you can see or feel
2
1.0
A repeated up-and-down movement of wings, flags, or sails
1
3.7
The movement of a bird's or insect's wings as they fly
Antonyms
How Fast
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fluttering comes from the verb flutter, a word that copies the quick, repeated 'flap' of wings and is like the simple word fly but smaller and faster. So fluttering means a quick, light movement up and down, as with wings, leaves, or a fast beating feeling in the chest.