Dictionary Entry
flicker
flicker is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To flutter; to flap the wings without flying. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 18 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To flutter; to flap the wings without flying.
- 2intransitive verb
To waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light.
- 3noun
The act of wavering or of fluttering; flucuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying flame.
- 4noun
The golden-winged woodpecker (Colaptes aurutus); -- so called from its spring note. Called also yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca.
- 5noun
the act of moving back and forth
- 6noun
North American woodpecker
- 7noun
a momentary flash of light
- 8verb
move back and forth very rapidly
"the candle flickered"
- 9verb
flash intermittently
"The lights flicked on and off"
Synonyms
- 10verb
shine unsteadily
"The candle flickered"
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