flutter
[verb]
Synonyms:
- beat, flap, palpitate, quiver, ripple, tremble, vibrate, waver
[noun]
Synonyms:
- vibration, palpitation, quiver, shiver, shudder, tremble, tremor, twitching
- agitation, commotion, confusion, dither (chiefly Brit.), excitement, fluster, state (informal)

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Related Words: quaver, quiver, shake, tremble, wobble, beat, palpitate, pulsate, throb, fluctuate, oscillate, swing, vibrate, flap

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. flut‧ter¹ /ˈflʌtə $ -ər/ verb
[Language: Old English; Origin: floterian]

1. [intransitive and transitive] if a bird or insect flutters, or if it flutters its wings, it flies by moving its wings lightly up and down:
A small bird fluttered past the window.

2. [intransitive] to make small gentle movements in the air:
Dead leaves fluttered slowly to the ground.
The flag fluttered in the light breeze.

3. [intransitive] if your heart or your stomach flutters, you feel very excited or nervous

4. [intransitive] if your eyelids flutter, they move slightly when you are asleep:
Her eyelids fluttered but did not open.

5. flutter your eyelashes (at somebody) if a woman flutters her eyelashes at a man, she looks at him and moves her eyes to make herself attractive to him

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. flutter² noun [singular]

1. a feeling of being nervous, confused, or excited
in a flutter
She was all in a flutter.
His sudden resignation caused quite a flutter.

2. a flutter of something a sudden feeling that is not very strong:
She felt a flutter of curiosity.

3. a light gentle movement
flutter of
a flutter of wings

4. have a flutter British English informal to risk a small amount of money on the result of something such as a horse race Synonym : have a bet

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

flutter
noun
I. quick, light movement
ADJ. little
VERB + FLUTTER give His heart gave a little flutter as the ladder slipped a couple of inches.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

flutter
II. state of nervous excitement
VERB + FLUTTER be in, feel She felt a flutter of excitement.
get in | cause
PREP. in a ~ They arrived in a flutter.
~ of

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲