Synonyms for flicker
ˈflɪk ərflick·er

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1. flicker

   Light, strictly denoting a form of radiant energy, is used as a general term for any luminous effect discernible by the eye, from the faintest phosphorescence to the blaze of the noonday sun. A flame is both hot and luminous; if it contains few solid particles it will yield little light, tho it may afford intense heat, as in the case of a hydrogen-flame. A blaze is an extensive, brilliant flame. A flare is a wavering flame or blaze; a flash is a light that appears and disappears in an instant; as, a flash of lightning; the flash of gunpowder. The glare and glow are steady, the glare painfully bright, the glow subdued; as, the glare of torches; the glow of dying embers. Shine and shining refer to a steady or continuous emission of light; sheen is a faint shining, usually by reflection. Glimmer, glitter, and shimmer denote wavering light. We speak of the glimmer of distant lamps through the mist; of the shimmer of waves in sunlight or moonlight. A gleam is not wavering, but transient or intermittent; a sudden gleam of light came through the half-open door; a glitter is a hard light; as, the glitter of burnished arms. A sparkle is a sudden light, as of sparks thrown out; scintillation is the more exact and scientific term for the actual emission of sparks, also the figurative term for what suggests such emission; as, scintillations of wit or of genius. Twinkle and twinkling are used of the intermittent light of the fixed stars. Glistening is a shining as from a wet surface. Illumination is a wide-spread, brilliant light, as when all the windows of a house or of a street are lighted. The light of incandescence is intense and white like that from metal at a white heat.

   Synonyms:
   blaze, flame, flare, flash, glare, gleam, gleaming, glimmer, glistening, glistering, glitter, glow, illumination, incandescence, light, luster, scintillation, sheen, shimmer, shine, shining, sparkle, twinkle, twinkling

   Antonyms:
   blackness, dark, darkness, dimness, dusk, gloom, gloominess, obscurity, shade, shadow

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. flicker

   Synonyms:
   flutter, quiver, bicker, falter, waver, glimmer, shimmer, scintillate

   Antonyms:
   stream, blaze, gleam, shine, beam

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. flicker, spark, glintnoun

   a momentary flash of light

   Synonyms:
   twinkle, waver, sparkle, discharge, glint, spark, arc, light, flutter, electric discharge, electric arc

2. flickernoun

   North American woodpecker

   Synonyms:
   spark, waver, flutter, glint

3. waver, flutter, flickerverb

   the act of moving back and forth

   Synonyms:
   commotion, fluttering, flapping, disturbance, waver, flap, glint, flutter, falter, to-do, hurly burly, spark, faltering, hesitation, hoo-ha, disruption, kerfuffle, hoo-hah

4. flicker, waver, flitter, flutter, quiververb

   move back and forth very rapidly

   "the candle flickered"

   Synonyms:
   bat, quake, fleet, palpitate, quaver, flitter, flit, flick, flutter, falter, fluctuate, pulsate, beat, vacillate, weave, quiver, hesitate, dart, waver, waffle

5. flicker, flickverb

   shine unsteadily

   "The candle flickered"

   Synonyms:
   jerk, waver, leaf, thumb, flip, flick, ruffle, snap, riff, flutter, quiver, flitter, click, riffle

6. flicker, flickverb

   flash intermittently

   "The lights flicked on and off"

   Synonyms:
   jerk, waver, leaf, thumb, flip, flick, ruffle, snap, riff, flutter, quiver, flitter, click, riffle

Matched Categories

1. • Flash
   • Woodpecker

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1. flickerverb

   Synonyms:
   flutter

2. flickerverb

   Synonyms:
   fluctuate, waver, float

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1. List of paraphrases for "flicker":

   blinking, blink, flickering, flashing, wink, glimmer, fluctuate

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How to use flicker in a sentence?

1. Dave Rubin:

   If you have any flicker of independent thought, if you have any desire to use your faculties to live in a way that is right for you and not to be under complete draconian, authoritarian rule by this administration and the Democrats, who are coming for every single one of our freedoms, they want you to wear masks forever, they want to be locked down forever, they want to control what you say and where you say it and who you say it to -- well, you're running out of time. And you're basically a frog in a slowly boiling pot. It's time to stand up and fight.

2. Dejan Stojanovic:

   Life is only a flicker of melted ice.

3. Robert Nightingale:

   It all happened like slow motion. It started to rock and, and rock, and then flicker, and then it just all of a sudden -- all this dust was through my window.

4. Oscar Auliq-Ice:

   No amount of darkness can ever put out the smallest flicker of light.

5. Joshua Warren:

   That shouldn’t happen unless there is some kind of unknown technology being tested nearby that would influence the environment, or if there are naturally places around planet earth that actually sort of flicker once in a while, that warp a little bit.