'Flit' definitions:
Definition of 'flit'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Flit'
From: GCIDE
- Flit \Flit\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Flitting.] [OE. flitten, flutten, to carry away; cf. Icel. flytja, Sw. flytta, Dan. flytte. [root]84. Cf. Fleet, v. i.]
- 1. To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along. [1913 Webster]
- A shadow flits before me. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To flutter; to rove on the wing. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate. [1913 Webster]
- It became a received opinion, that the souls of men, departing this life, did flit out of one body into some other. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To remove from one place or habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] --Wright. Jamieson. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved. [1913 Webster]
- And the free soul to flitting air resigned. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Flit'
From: GCIDE
- Flit \Flit\, a. Nimble; quick; swift. [Obs.] See Fleet. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'flit'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advance,
- aeroplane,
- air speed,
- airlift,
- airplane,
- auntie,
- ball the jack,
- balloon,
- barrel,
- bat around,
- be airborne,
- beat,
- beating,
- bi-guy,
- bicker,
- bisexual,
- boom,
- bowl along,
- breeze,
- breeze along,
- brush,
- bull dyke,
- bum,
- butch,
- catamite,
- celerity,
- chicken,
- clip,
- coast,
- commute,
- continue,
- count ties,
- course,
- cover ground,
- cruise,
- cut along,
- dance,
- dart,
- disappear,
- dispatch,
- divagate,
- drift,
- dyke,
- elapse,
- emigrate,
- endure,
- evanesce,
- evaporate,
- expatriate,
- expedition,
- expire,
- fade,
- fag,
- faggot,
- fairy,
- fare,
- fare forth,
- fastness,
- femme,
- ferry,
- fetch,
- flap,
- flash,
- flee,
- fleet,
- flick,
- flicker,
- flight,
- flip,
- flitter,
- float,
- flop,
- flow,
- flow on,
- flurry,
- flutter,
- fly,
- fly low,
- foot,
- fricatrice,
- fruit,
- gad,
- gad about,
- gallivant,
- gang,
- glide,
- glissade,
- go,
- go about,
- go along,
- go by,
- go fast,
- go on,
- go pitapat,
- go the rounds,
- ground speed,
- gunsel,
- gutter,
- haste,
- hasten,
- hie,
- highball,
- hit the road,
- hit the trail,
- hobo,
- homo,
- homophile,
- homosexual,
- homosexualist,
- hop,
- hover,
- hurry,
- hydroplane,
- ice-skate,
- immigrate,
- in-migrate,
- instantaneousness,
- intermigrate,
- invert,
- jaunt,
- jet,
- knock about,
- knock around,
- knots,
- lapse,
- last,
- lesbian,
- lightning speed,
- make knots,
- meander,
- melt,
- melt like snow,
- migrate,
- miles per hour,
- mooch,
- move,
- move along,
- move on,
- nance,
- navigate,
- nip,
- nomadize,
- out-migrate,
- outstrip the wind,
- palpitate,
- palpitation,
- pansy,
- pass,
- pass away,
- pass by,
- pathic,
- peregrinate,
- pererrate,
- pitapat,
- pitter-patter,
- pour it on,
- precipitation,
- press on,
- proceed,
- progress,
- promptitude,
- promptness,
- prowl,
- pulse,
- punk,
- queen,
- queer,
- quickness,
- quiver,
- ramble,
- range,
- rapidity,
- remigrate,
- rip,
- roam,
- roll,
- roll on,
- roller-skate,
- round pace,
- rove,
- rpm,
- run,
- run about,
- run its course,
- run on,
- run out,
- rush,
- sail,
- sailplane,
- sapphist,
- sashay,
- saunter,
- scorch,
- scud,
- seaplane,
- shake,
- sideslip,
- sink,
- sizzle,
- skate,
- skateboard,
- ski,
- skid,
- skim,
- skip,
- slat,
- sled,
- sleigh,
- slide,
- slip,
- slither,
- snappiness,
- soar,
- speed,
- speediness,
- splutter,
- sputter,
- storm along,
- straggle,
- stray,
- stream,
- stroll,
- swarm,
- sweep,
- swift rate,
- swiftness,
- take the air,
- take wing,
- tatter,
- tear,
- tear along,
- throb,
- thunder along,
- toboggan,
- traipse,
- tramp,
- transmigrate,
- travel,
- trek,
- tribade,
- vagabond,
- vagabondize,
- vanish,
- velocity,
- volplane,
- walk the tracks,
- wander,
- wave,
- waver,
- wayfare,
- wend,
- whisk,
- whiz,
- wing,
- zing,
- zip,
- zoom