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Antonyms for flow
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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  1. flownoun

    To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.

    The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow.

    Antonyms:
    ebb

English Synonyms and Antonyms4.7 / 3 votes

  1. flow

    To rise is to move up or upward whether slowly or quickly, whether through the least or greatest distance; the waves rise; the mists rise; the river rises after heavy rains; as said of persons, to rise is to come to an erect position after kneeling, sitting, reclining, or lying down; as, to rise from a sick-bed; my friend rose as I entered; the guests rose to depart; so a deliberative assembly or a committee is said to rise when it breaks up a session; a sun or star rises when to our apprehension it comes above the horizon and begins to go up the sky. To ascend is to go far upward, and is often used in a stately sense; as, Christ ascended to heaven. The shorter form rise is now generally preferred to the longer form arise, except in poetic or elevated style. The sun rises or arises; the river springs at a bound from the foot of the glacier and flows through the lands to the ocean. Smoke issues from a chimney and ascends toward the sky. Light and heat emanate from the sun.

    Antonyms:
    decline, descend, drop, fall, go down, set, settle, sink

    Synonyms:
    arise, ascend, emanate, issue, proceed, rise, spring

    Preposition:
    Rise from slumber; rise to duty; rise at the summons; we rose with the lark.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 1 vote

  1. flow

    Antonyms:
    halt, stick, stickle, stop, hesitate, fail, stint, beat, recoil, regurgitate, ebb

    Synonyms:
    stream, issue, progress, glide, course, career, run

Princeton's WordNet2.0 / 5 votes

  1. flow, flowingnoun

    the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)

    Synonyms:
    current, rate of flow, catamenia, flowing, period, menstruation, menstruum, menses, flow rate, stream

  2. flow, flow rate, rate of flownoun

    the amount of fluid that flows in a given time

    Synonyms:
    current, rate of flow, catamenia, flowing, period, menstruation, menstruum, menses, flow rate, stream

  3. flow, streamnoun

    the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression

    Synonyms:
    current, rate of flow, catamenia, flowing, period, menstruation, menstruum, menses, watercourse, flow rate, stream

  4. flownoun

    any uninterrupted stream or discharge

    Synonyms:
    current, rate of flow, catamenia, flowing, period, menstruation, menstruum, menses, flow rate, stream

  5. stream, flownoun

    something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously

    "a stream of people emptied from the terminal"; "the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors"

    Synonyms:
    current, rate of flow, catamenia, flowing, period, menstruation, menstruum, menses, watercourse, flow rate, stream

  6. stream, flow, currentnoun

    dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas

    "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history"

    Synonyms:
    current, rate of flow, catamenia, flowing, period, menstruation, menstruum, menses, watercourse, flow rate, electric current, stream

  7. menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flowverb

    the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause

    "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle

    Synonyms:
    menstruum, flow rate, current, flowing, menses, menstruation, period of time, full point, stream, full stop, catamenia, time period, stop, period, point, geological period, rate of flow

  8. flow, fluxverb

    move or progress freely as if in a stream

    "The crowd flowed out of the stadium"

    Synonyms:
    menstruate, conflate, blend, liquefy, coalesce, merge, combine, mix, commingle, flux, feed, fuse, run, fall, meld, liquify, immix, course, hang

  9. run, flow, feed, courseverb

    move along, of liquids

    "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"

    Synonyms:
    course, operate, feed in, hunt, fly the coop, work, scat, run away, move, turn tail, eat, flux, range, run, guide, function, lead, lam, melt down, track down, break away, head for the hills, extend, hunt down, endure, bunk, take to the woods, consort, execute, feed, fall, feast, bleed, carry, scarper, go, unravel, prey, lean, play, die hard, race, pass, fertilise, fertilize, run for, black market, give, persist, incline, hang, draw, hightail it, be given, prevail, campaign, tend, escape, ladder, ply, menstruate, melt

  10. flowverb

    cause to flow

    "The artist flowed the washes on the paper"

    Synonyms:
    run, feed, course, menstruate, hang, flux, fall

  11. flowverb

    be abundantly present

    "The champagne flowed at the wedding"

    Synonyms:
    run, feed, course, menstruate, hang, flux, fall

  12. hang, fall, flowverb

    fall or flow in a certain way

    "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back"

    Synonyms:
    accrue, menstruate, shine, go down, feed, diminish, come down, strike, devolve, precipitate, settle, string up, advert, light, lessen, run, cling, attend, pass, descend, come, fall, hang, return, hang up, give ear, flux, pay heed, decrease, course, fall down

  13. flowverb

    cover or swamp with water

    Synonyms:
    run, feed, course, menstruate, hang, flux, fall

  14. menstruate, flowverb

    undergo menstruation

    "She started menstruating at the age of 11"

    Synonyms:
    fall, run, flux, feed, course, menstruate, hang

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. flowverb

    Antonyms:
    stagnate, ebb

    Synonyms:
    circulate, proceed, emanate, issue

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. writer's block

    "flow" is when a writer doesn't have to think, the words write themselves without effort

    that chapter was pure flow, it only took two days.

    Submitted by anonymous on December 22, 2019  

How to use flow in a sentence?

  1. Jennifer Rowland:

    There's not enough cash flow for buybacks, which is what people want to see.

  2. Joseph Sroka:

    There are periodic points of news flow where the positive news will carry the market and negative news will pressure the market, it's a return of health concerns versus economic optimism.

  3. Victorino Mercado:

    You can take a situation where in the early stages we could be extremely outnumbered and by adding this capability and to be able to shape that battle space, that's an enormous equalizer and that could allow more( Victorino Mercado) forces to flow in, we can create areas for the enemy to avoid.

  4. Helvea Baader analysts:

    We think that Linde's cash flow should nevertheless improve further over the coming years and that Linde's consolidation story is on track.

  5. Fadel Gheit:

    It will be a day of reckoning as we get closer to the end of this year and people realize that average prices are not likely to match current expectations, i'm not willing to make bets that there'll be disruption of oil flow from the Middle East or elsewhere that will give us $ 70 oil.

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