flitting

Speech parts

1. flitting - Noun

2. flitting - Adjective

3. flitting - Verb

Derived from flit

Meaning

of Flit

A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.

A removal from one habitation to another.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

dart short restless dance fleet brief passing flying temporary unstable short-lived shifting temporal volatile provisional
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Antonyms

strong constant fixed permanent firm lasting
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Examples

Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, And with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain. Jonathan Swift

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man? Zhuangzi

If you're going to be with someone, you're with them, you're committed to them. I'm not sort of flitting around. Nicole Kidman

The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening. Richard Blackmore

Fools are fain of flitting. Scottish Proverb

He made a moon-light flitting. Scottish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

flittern flittery flittiness flittingly Flitton and Greenfield flitty