Antonyms for flash
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : flash |
| Phonetic Transcription : flæʃ |
Definition of flash
Origin :- late 14c., from flasken (c.1300) "to dash or splash" (as water), probably imitative. Related: Flashed; flashing. Sense of "give off a sudden burst of light or flame" is 1540s. Flash flood is from 1940. Flash card is from 1923. Flash cube (remember those?) is from 1965.
- noun shimmer, flicker
- noun instant, split second
- noun demonstration
- verb shimmer, flicker
- verb move fast and display
- She dropped into her chair, with a flash of resentment at the proximity of the other table.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- This flash of gold is the only brightness in the place, otherwise dull and monotonous.
- Extract from : « The Roof of France » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
- If I could only flash last night—every glorious minute of it—upon paper!
- Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
- She looked at him an instant, and then in a flash realised her true position.
- Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
- The strange treachery at Maizar in June was a flash in the pan.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill
- The flash of orange, the blaze of red, the gleam of green, were what she needed.
- Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
- Their glances crossed like rapiers for the flash of an instant.
- Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
- He had seen a vessel, by a flash, and he thought she was English, from her size.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- I saw him but a moment, by means of a flash of lightning, and I think he must have seen me.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- Like a flash he wheeled, to add yet another picture to his mental gallery.
- Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
Synonyms for flash
- beam
- bedazzle
- bedazzlement
- blaze
- blink
- bolt
- brandish
- breathing
- burst
- coruscate
- coruscation
- dart
- dash
- dazzle
- display
- disport
- exhibit
- expose
- flame
- flare
- flaunt
- flit
- flourish
- fly
- glance
- glare
- gleam
- glimmer
- glint
- glisten
- glitter
- glow
- illumination
- imprint
- impulse
- incandesce
- incandescence
- jiffy
- light
- luster
- manifestation
- minute
- moment
- outburst
- parade
- phosphoresce
- phosphorescence
- quiver
- race
- radiate
- radiation
- ray
- reflect
- reflection
- scintillate
- scintillation
- shake
- shine
- shoot
- shoot out
- show
- show off
- sign
- spangle
- spark
- sparkle
- speed
- splash
- spring
- streak
- stream
- swank
- sweep
- trice
- trot out
- twinkle
- twinkling
- vision
- whistle
- zoom
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