Fluttering
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Fluttering is a noun meaning Rapid back-and-forth waving or oscillation.
Meaning
Rapid back-and-forth waving or oscillation.
More Meanings
- present participle and gerund of flutter
Example Sentences
Miss Greta closed her eyes. Quickly, however, did she open them again; for a dull noise, with certain whiskings-about and flutterings, together with low clatterings, approached her ear.
It is indubitably certain, therefore, that he is able to attend, and actually attends, to all things at the same moment; to the motions of a seed, or a leaf, or an atom; to the creepings of a worm, the flutterings of an insect, and the journeys of a mite […]
Word Forms
- flutterings
Synonyms for fluttering
Depending on context, synonyms include flutter, unsteady, flap, moving, flapping, flittering.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include flittering, flap, flapping, flopping, waving, aflare.
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