What does aflight mean?
Aflight means Flying..
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/əˈflaɪt/ · adjective
Flying..
1874, Ambrose Bierce (as Dod Grile), “The Legend of Immortal Truth” in Cobwebs, London: “Fun” Office, ca. 1884, p. 114, Then, like a rocket set aflight, / She sprang, and streaked it for the light!
The elderly Pollyana of the infant aviation had photographs of their glider of 1902 aflight at Kitty Hawk.
[…] the Vestibule was full of birds and the birds were all aflight.
curved attics aflight with / angels
In the distance the billabong was white with egrets and aflight with ducks;
[I] saw a stream of animals, hooved, padded, clawed and dashing, splashing through the ponds for Various Aquatic Birds, setting the night aflight—
1915, Marvin M. Taylor, “The Roll of the War Drums” in Donald Tulloch (ed.), Songs and Poems of the Great World War, Worcester, MA: Davis Press, p. 17, Like shepherdless sheep from wolves aflight
The five now aflight from Massacre Canyon would have posses beating the bush for them.
Use aflight when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Aflight means Flying..
Common synonyms include in flight, anxious, distressed, moved.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1874, Ambrose Bierce (as Dod Grile), “The Legend of Immortal Truth” in Cobwebs, London: “Fun” Office, ca. 1884, p. 114, Then, like a rocket set aflight, / She sprang, and streaked it for the light!
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