Flickering

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flicker \Flick"er\ (fl[i^]k"[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
     {Flickered} (fl[i^]k"[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Flickering}.]
     [OE. flikeren, flekeren, to flutter, AS. flicerian,
     flicorian, cf. D. flikkeren to sparkle. [root]84. Cf.
     Flacker.]
     1. To flutter; to flap the wings without flying.


        [1913 Webster]
  
              And flickering on her nest made short essays to
              sing.                                 --Dryden.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or
        when about to expire; as, the flickering light.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The shadows flicker to fro.           --Tennyson.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  flickering
       adj : shining unsteadily [syn: {aflicker(p)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  173 Moby Thesaurus words for "flickering":
     ablaze, adrift, afire, aflame, aflicker, afloat, aglow, alight,
     alternating, amorphous, ardent, bickering, blazing, blinking,
     brief, brisk, broken, burning, candent, candescent, capricious,
     careening, catchy, changeable, changeful, choppy, comburent,
     cometary, conflagrant, dancing, desultory, deviable, deviative,
     disconnected, discontinuous, dizzy, eccentric, erratic,
     fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flagrant, flaming, flaring,
     flashing, fleet, flickery, flicky, flighty, flitting, fluctuating,
     fluttering, fluttery, freakish, fuming, giddy, glowing, guttering,
     halting, herky-jerky, heteroclite, ignescent, ignited,
     immethodical, impetuous, impulsive, in a blaze, in a glow,
     in flames, incandescent, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive,
     infirm, inflamed, intermittent, intermitting, irregular,
     irresolute, irresponsible, jerky, kindled, lambent, live, living,
     lurching, mazy, mercurial, meteoric, moody, nonuniform, on fire,
     patchy, playing, quick, quivering, quivery, rambling, reeking,
     restless, rough, roving, scatterbrained, scintillant,
     scintillating, scrappy, shapeless, shifting, shifty, short,
     short and sweet, short-term, short-termed, shuffling, smoking,
     smoldering, snatchy, sparking, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic,
     spastic, speedy, spineless, spluttering, sporadic, spotty,
     sputtering, sputtery, staggering, stroboscopic, swift,
     unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable,
     undisciplined, unequal, uneven, unextinguished, unfixed,
     unmethodical, unmetrical, unpredictable, unquenched, unregular,
     unreliable, unrestrained, unrhythmical, unsettled, unstable,
     unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsystematic,
     vacillating, vagrant, variable, veering, vicissitudinary,
     vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery,
     wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy, wobbling, wobbly