Antonyms for flit

Grammar : Verb

Spell : flit

Phonetic Transcription : flɪt

Definition of flit

Origin : c.1200, flutten "convey, move, take, carry away, go away," perhaps from Old Norse flytja "to remove, bring."
Theire desire ... is to goe to theire newe masters eyther on a Tewsday, or on a Thursday; for ... they say Munday flitte, Neaver sitte. [Henry Best, farming & account book, 1641]
Related: Flitted; flitting. As a noun, from 1835.

verb flutter, move rapidly

Example sentences :

How they flit about, imps of evil as they are, and sound their horn of defiance in our ear!
Extract from : « Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 454 » by Various

She and her mother had to flit so often—suddenly, noiselessly.
Extract from : « Ten American Girls From History » by Kate Dickinson Sweetser

With yours so nearly ready to flit, no change in size is indicated now.
Extract from : « The Galaxy Primes » by Edward Elmer Smith

It was so still that the flit of a wing was almost startling.
Extract from : « Little Brothers of the Air » by Olive Thorne Miller

Silent, inscrutable, they flit through the American scene, alien to the last.
Extract from : « A Wayfarer in China » by Elizabeth Kendall

Now he saw one or two flit across the sunny glade in advance.
Extract from : « Middy and Ensign » by G. Manville Fenn

But the sopranos who did it flit across this planet like angels.
Extract from : « Music and Some Highly Musical People » by James M. Trotter

She liked to flit out after him when he was going to church at night.
Extract from : « The Rainbow » by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

But Darrow's face was unstirred save by the flit of his half-amused smile.
Extract from : « The Reef » by Edith Wharton

My experience of men is that when they begin to quote poetry they are going to flit.
Extract from : « Under the Deodars » by Rudyard Kipling

Synonyms for flit

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