FLITTER Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

flitter

verb

ˈfli-tər

as in to flit

to make an irregular series of quick, sudden movements the birds flittered back and forth between the backyard feeder and the safety of the trees

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Recent Examples of flitter For the past few weeks, swarms of the diminutive insects have been seen flittering en masse through parks and backyards across the Bay Area. —

Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 26 May 2026 Here’s a look at what’s been behind the market’s surprising strength: What sets a stock’s price Stock prices flitter up and down every second for myriad reasons, many of which no one can explain. —

Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2026 But there was also a significant contingent from DR Congo, resplendent in light blue, their flags flittering in the afternoon breeze. —

Jack Lang, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2026 Acknowledging that the debt-forgiveness fairy isn’t flittering in the wings on graduation day calls for careful assessment of college plans, dreams, and reality. —

Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 9 Jan. 2026 Black and gold flags flitter in the wind in Brackenridge, Pennsylvania, attached to homes with a Terrible Towel likely somewhere inside. —

Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 10 Dec. 2025 His neuroses flitter around him like fireflies. —

Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 24 Oct. 2025 Too many famous names flitter in and out of Selected Letters to list them all, but here is a small sampling: John Cheever, Erica Jong, Roger Angell, Norman Mailer, Italo Calvino, George Plimpton, Karl Shapiro, Lorrie Moore, Cynthia Ozick, Tina Brown, Kurt Vonnegut, Ian McEwan. —

Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2025 There might be a butterfly flittering about barren aspen trunks. —

Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2025

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Brands may be gearing up for a European summer, but over the past couple of months, many European luxury labels — and with them, brand executives, fashion journalists, and VICs — have flitted between the coasts of the United States.

— Madeleine Schulz, Vogue, 11 June 2026
The show also figured out better than any show in recent memory how to adapt itself for a TV broadcast, with the kitties, as costumed by Tony winner Qween Jean, flitted all over the Radio City Musical Hall in New York, this year’s venue for the ceremony.

— Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2026