Definition of flickering
: moving or shining irregularly or unsteadily
- a flickering light
- Everything was lit by dingy fluorescent bulbs, half of which were broken or flickering.
- —Brian Selznick
- … he seems to have had only a flickering awareness of what he was doing …
- —Robert Penn Warren
- And some of the exclamation marks and the nostalgia for degradation revive flickering thoughts of Celine.
- —Herbert Gold
- The doctors said they couldn't stop the support measures needed to sustain so flickering a life without a court order.
- —Arthur Allen
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flickeringly
adverb-
- a flickeringly lit room
