Antonyms for flight
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1. flight

   A career was originally the ground for a race, or, especially, for a knight's charge in tournament or battle; whence career was early applied to the charge itself.

   If you will use the lance, take ground for your career.... The four horsemen met in full career.

   Scott Quentin Durward ch. 14, p. 194. [D. F. & CO.]

   In its figurative use career signifies some continuous and conspicuous work, usually a life-work, and most frequently one of honorable achievement. Compare BUSINESS.

   Synonyms:
   career, charge, course, line of achievement, passage, public life, race, rush

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 2 votes

1. flight

   Antonyms:
   recurrence, return, reappearance, perching, alighting, repose

   Synonyms:
   volitation, departure, escape, evasion, disappearance, flying, stampede, soaring, begin, fleeing, exodus

Matched Categories

1. • Adorn
   • Air Travel
   • Air Unit
   • Creativity
   • Flock
   • Fly
   • Formation
   • Mechanical Phenomenon
   • Running Away
   • Shoot
   • Stairway

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. flightnoun

   a formation of aircraft in flight

   Synonyms:
   flight of steps, trajectory, escape, flying, flight of stairs

2. flight, flyingnoun

   an instance of traveling by air

   "flying was still an exciting adventure for him"

   Synonyms:
   flight of steps, trajectory, escape, flying, flight of stairs

3. flight, flight of stairs, flight of stepsnoun

   a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next

   Synonyms:
   flight of steps, trajectory, escape, flying, flight of stairs

4. escape, flightnoun

   the act of escaping physically

   "he made his escape from the mental hospital"; "the canary escaped from its cage"; "his flight was an indication of his guilt"

   Synonyms:
   relief valve, leakage, trajectory, evasion, dodging, escape, escape cock, flight of stairs, leak, safety valve, escape valve, outflow, flying, flight of steps, escapism

5. flightnoun

   an air force unit smaller than a squadron

   Synonyms:
   flight of steps, trajectory, escape, flying, flight of stairs

6. flightnoun

   passing above and beyond ordinary bounds

   "a flight of fancy"; "flights of rhetoric"; "flights of imagination"

   Synonyms:
   flight of steps, trajectory, escape, flying, flight of stairs

7. trajectory, flightnoun

   the path followed by an object moving through space

   Synonyms:
   flight of steps, trajectory, escape, flying, flight of stairs

8. flightnoun

   a flock of flying birds

   Synonyms:
   flight of steps, trajectory, escape, flying, flight of stairs

9. flightverb

   a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports

   "I took the noon flight to Chicago"

   Synonyms:
   flight of steps, trajectory, escape, flying, flight of stairs

10. flightverb

    shoot a bird in flight

    Synonyms:
    fledge

11. flightverb

    fly in a flock

    "flighting wild geese"

    Synonyms:
    fledge

12. fledge, flightverb

    decorate with feathers

    "fledge an arrow"

    Synonyms:
    feather, fledge

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:3.5 / 2 votes

1. flightnoun

   Synonyms:
   flying, exodus, hegira, fleeing, absconding

How to use flight in a sentence?

1. Bo Hines:

   We have declining populations in many of the counties in NC-5 attributed to manufacturing flight over the last several years, there need to be a lot of policies working on incentivizing local business owners to invest back in the areas they live in, where theyoperate.

2. Bob Balaram:

   And then, we will be at a point where we will undertake our first flight and then we will progressively undertake more flights once we understand and analyze all the behavior from that first flight.

3. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya:

   The escalation of repressions in Belarus, and this situation that's happened with [the] flight is a result of impunity.

4. Homer Ahr:

   Our job was to arrive at 5 a.m., we brought up the machines and checked out the software to do a dry run of the launch without involving the flight controllers. Later, we brought up the prime computer we used and before you knew it, it was liftoff. I typed in one of the first things that we entered into the computer, the time of liftoff 8 : [ 32 a.m. EST ]. I made a whole bunch of commands after that, but it was really sort of weird.

5. Police Chief Heath Landry:

   Zak Evans ' said Creola Police said the high rate of speed, and the fact that the car did not immediately pull over, led to Zak Evans' arrest. BABY ON BOARD : AIRLINE CREW DELIVERS BABY GIRL MID-FLIGHT Zak Evans ' was taken to jail while Zak Evans ' wife was taken by ambulance to Cabrini Hospital. From my understanding, Zak Evans ' was very irate, threatening to get everyone if Zak Evans ' missed Zak Evans ' wife's pregnancy.

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