1. fluttered - Adjective
2. fluttered - Verb
fluttered
simple past and past participle of flutter
fluttered (comparative more fluttered, superlative most fluttered)
Confused, befuddled, flustered.
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. Anaïs Nin
It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them. Gabriel García Márquez
The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen. Tony Benn
No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Virginia Woolf
Her green eyes fluttered swiftly twice or thrice, then glazed, her mouth gaped open, bleating, then her jaws hung loose and retched up all her soul in lumps of clotting blood. Nikos Kazantzakis
They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly. Jack London