Synonyms for flow
floʊflow

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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 AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.7 / 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.

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

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

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

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

1. flow

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

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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.0 / 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

Matched Categories

1. • Be
   • Bleed
   • Change Of Location
   • Course
   • Flood
   • Motion
   • Move
   • Natural Process

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. flowverb

   Synonyms:
   stream, run, pour, roll on, sweep along

2. flowverb

   Synonyms:
   issue, emanate, proceed, come, grow, arise, follow, spring, result, be derived

3. flowverb

   Synonyms:
   glide, move along easily or smoothly

4. flowverb

   Synonyms:
   wave, float, undulate, waver, hang loosely

5. flowverb

   Synonyms:
   abound, be full

6. flowverb

   Synonyms:
   flood, inundate, deluge, overflow

7. flownoun

   Synonyms:
   stream, current, flux

8. flownoun

   Synonyms:
   abundance, copiousness

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1. flowverb

   Synonyms:
   circulate, proceed, emanate, issue

   Antonyms:
   stagnate, ebb

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1. List of paraphrases for "flow":

   flows, flux, stream, debit, influx, fluxes, circulation, movement, streamflow, inflow, runoff, flowrate, throughput, streams, mobile, fluidity, discharge, outflow, debiting, movements, traffic, current, flow-control, workflow, capacitor, flowing, flood, liquidity, dfd, streamflows, flowmeter, run-off, drainage, flow

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How to use flow in a sentence?

1. Luz Cantres:

   I'm trying to copy what I see but letting it flow.

2. White House spokesman Josh Earnest:

   We are quite concerned about protecting freedom of navigation, the free flow of commerce in the South China Sea, and we're going to continue to encourage all parties, big and small, to resolve their differences diplomatically and to not try to use their comparative size and strength to intimidate their neighbors.

3. Mark Sedgwick:

   AIPA is supportive of the commercial benefits that may flow to Qantas in being able to operate these long premium routes with minimal competition, we want to make sure the safety and fatigue management issues are adequately addressed in the process of enabling these flights.

4. Bryant McGill:

   To move forward simply set your intentions, be grateful for what you have, be open to what is possible, and the rest just happens as a beautiful and effortless flow.

5. Leah Zallman:

   The series of policies that Trump is proposing to reduce the flow of low-skilled labor in this country is exactly at odds with our demographic shift, we just don't have the young, working-age population that we need to care for elders. These policies are going to leave millions of elderly and disabled stranded without care.