fluctuate

Verb

Meaning

To move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; to float backward and forward, as on waves; as, a fluctuating field of air.

To move now in one direction and now in another; to be wavering or unsteady; to be irresolute or undetermined; to vacillate.

To cause to move as a wave; to put in motion.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

waver vacillate hesitate seesaw teeter change range quake waffle rock vary wave shift varied differ
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Antonyms

remain hold courser believe determine accept
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Hypernyms

move turn swing displace change state

Phrases with the word

to fluctuate fluctuate is applied both to things and persons and denotes thatthey move as they are acted upon fluctuate about

Derivatives

fluctuated fluctuating

Examples

It's easier to stay in shape than to fluctuate. Lou Diamond Phillips

It will fluctuate. J. P. Morgan

Costs of manufactured articles importantly depend on the cost of raw materials as well as labor, and the prices of many raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labor cost of producing them. Charles Erwin Wilson

Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world. Daniel Gilbert

By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity. Ron Chernow

The man with a fixed income lives with anxiety and suffers as the costs of goods fluctuate. Sicilian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

fluctuance fluctuancy fluctuant fluctuate about fluctuate is applied both to things and persons and denotes thatthey move as they are acted upon fluctuating