Synonyms for Flickering

Synonyms for "flickering" (205 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (41)

ablaze adrift afire aflame aflicker afloat aglow alight alternating amorphous ardent bickering blazing blinking brief brisk broken burning candent candescent

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capricious careening catchy changeable changeful choppy comburent cometary conflagrant dance dancing desultory deviable deviative disconnected discontinuous dizzy eccentric

Adjective(1 words)

aflicker

Noun(2 words)

blink darting

Strong matches (62)

erratic faintfast and loosefickle fitful flagrant flaming flaring flashing fleet flickery flicky flighty flitting fluctuating fluttering fluttery freakish fuming giddy

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glowing guttering halting herky-jerky heteroclite ignescent ignited immethodical impetuous impulsivein a blazein a glowin flamesincandescent inconsistent inconstant indecisive infirm inflamed intermittent intermitting irregular irresolute irresponsible jerky kindled lambentlight showlive living lurching

Noun(9 words)

flash flashing flicker flutter glimmer glimmering glitch glow intermittent

Verb(2 words)

flickered fluttered

Related words (102)

mazy mercurial meteoric moody nonuniformon firepatchy play playing quick quivering quivery rambling reeking restless rough roving scatterbrained scintillant scintillating

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Noun(10 words)

oscillating precarious quiver skittering strobing unstable volatile waver wavering wobble

Adjective(1 words)

vacillant

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

14 entries

artifactbrightness variationdisplay anomalyemit lightevent flutter glow move occurrence phenomenonquality attributestability variationvisual variation

More specific

20 entries

blinkingbrief interruptioncandle flickereyelid flutterirregularlamp flickerluminance variationmonitor flickerneon flickerscanline flickerscreen flashscreen flickershort pulsestrobingsurface jittertemporal artifact

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Collocations

11 entries

flickering brightnessflickering candleflickering displayflickering imageflickering lampflickering lightflickering lightsflickering neonflickering screenflickering signalscreen flicker

Inflections

5 entries

flickered flickerings flickersmore flickeringmost flickering

Derivations

2 entries

flicker flickeriness

similar

1 entries

unsteady

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The candle's flame is flickering in the soft breeze.

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The picture on this TV is no good. It keeps flickering.

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Can you see that flickering light?

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The flickering flame of the northern lights could be plainly seen, whether they rose high or low in the heavens, from every part of the castle.

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Flickering