Synonyms for butterfly
ˈbʌt ərˌflaɪbut·ter·f·ly

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:4.0 / 4 votes

1. butterflynoun

   Synonyms:
   lep

2. butterflynoun

   To cut almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.

   Synonyms:
   lep

3. butterflynoun

   To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across a gaping wound to close it.

   Synonyms:
   lep

4. butterflynoun

   The butterfly stroke.

   Synonyms:
   lep

5. butterflynoun

   A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.

   butterfly tape

   Synonyms:
   lep

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. butterflynoun

   diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings

   Synonyms:
   butterfly stroke

2. butterfly, butterfly strokeverb

   a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down

   Synonyms:
   butterfly stroke

3. butterflyverb

   flutter like a butterfly

   Synonyms:
   romance, coquet, chat up, philander, mash, flirt, coquette, dally

4. butterflyverb

   cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking

   "butterflied shrimp"

   Synonyms:
   romance, coquet, chat up, philander, mash, flirt, coquette, dally

5. chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mashverb

   talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions

   "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women"

   Synonyms:
   flirt, crush, womanise, court, squelch, solicit, play, dally, coquette, coquet, romance, comminute, dawdle, toy, woo, bray, womanize, grind, squeeze, philander, crunch, mash, chat up, squash, trifle

Matched Categories

1. • Cooking
   • Flit
   • Lepidopterous Insect
   • Spread
   • Talk

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:3.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "butterfly":

   papillon, moth, butterflies, mariposa, farfalla, throttle, tie

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. butterfly

   Synonyms:
   Butterfly rash, see there
   

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1. Richard Bach:

   The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

2. Omar Vidal:

   What the scientific monitor is showing is that there is an apparent recovery in the last two years, which is why this is good news, but the threats for the butterfly, for their migration continue.

3. Jennifer Kempton:

   It very much so is a psychological form of bondage, it ties you to those memories and it ties you to those feelings that you felt when you got that and to be able to be free of enslavement and then to make an active choice of, 'This is what I want on my body, not this man's name or this gang's symbol, I want my daughter's name, I want a beautiful flower, I want a religious scripture, I want a butterfly to show that I have wings, and I can fly.'.

4. Jeff Goldblum:

   I don’t know anything about what I’m talking about. But let’s utter the word ‘entropy’ and ‘systems’ and how things break down, before the butterfly comes out of the chrysalis, the caterpillar has some convulsions, chaotic convulsions. But it’s not death, necessarily. It’s the onset of transformation.

5. Jennifer Lopez:

   When I sat there, I was in my hair and makeup trailer, and heres what I felt. In my belly, I felt a flutter. I felt like a little butterfly in my stomach, and immediately I knew that I had life inside of me. the doctor says, you see that right there, that little grain of rice ? Thats the baby. You see that other little grain of rice over here ? Thats the other baby.