Flit
verb
To move quickly and lightly from one place to another.
A bird flitted from tree to tree.
Often appears as...
- flit from place to place
- flit across
verb
To move or change quickly.
His eyes flitted nervously around the room.
Often appears as...
- flit from topic to topic
- eyes flit
verb
To spend time in a wasteful, trifling, or evasive manner.
He flitted his life away at poker and pool.
Often appears as...
- flit time away
- flit life away
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To move quickly and lightly from one place to another.
A bird flitted from tree to tree.
Often appears as...
- flit from place to place
- flit across
verb
To move or change quickly.
His eyes flitted nervously around the room.
Often appears as...
- flit from topic to topic
- eyes flit
verb
To spend time in a wasteful, trifling, or evasive manner.
He flitted his life away at poker and pool.
Often appears as...
- flit time away
- flit life away
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Movement
Used when describing something moving quickly and softly, often in a playful or light manner.
The butterfly flitted around the garden.
Pro Tip 2/2Sudden Action
Implies a brief and rapid action, without lingering in one place.
She flitted through the crowd, hardly noticed.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Movement
Used when describing something moving quickly and softly, often in a playful or light manner.
The butterfly flitted around the garden.
Pro Tip 2/2Sudden Action
Implies a brief and rapid action, without lingering in one place.
She flitted through the crowd, hardly noticed.
Pro Tip 1/2Physical Movement
Used when describing something moving quickly and softly, often in a playful or light manner.
The butterfly flitted around the garden.
Pro Tip 2/2Sudden Action
Implies a brief and rapid action, without lingering in one place.
She flitted through the crowd, hardly noticed.
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First person vs. Second...
But that can be good for stories where a feeling of distance is important. A third person narrator can be either limited, meaning they stick close to one character’s thoughts and feelings, or they can be omniscient, able to flit between characters’ minds and give the reader more information.
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Marlene Zuk: What we...
males are actually not all that important in the lives of a lot of insects. In the social insects -- the bees and wasps and ants -- the individuals that you see every day -- the ants going back and forth to your sugar bowl, the honey bees that are flitting from flower to flower --
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TED Prize wish: Protect...
at where we're sitting and then cruise up the coast to the big aquarium the ocean and California's four national marine sanctuaries and a new network state marine reserves that are beginning to protect and restore some of the assets we can flit over to Hawaii and
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Where are all the...
to tell the truth. It's easy to fool ourselves. I saw something, but what's more likely -- that I saw an alien spacecraft, or that my brain misinterpreted the data my eyes were giving it? Ever since though I've Why don't we see flying saucers flitting around?
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Marian Bantjes:...
your thoughts and words flit and dart, disconcertedly elusive at times, but when caught and examined -- ahh, such a wonder, such a delightful reward. There's no passing time with you, only collecting -- the collecting of moments with the hope for preservation
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Chris Abani: On humanity...
But also, most importantly, all the invisible people behind TED that you just see flitting around the whole place that have made sort of this space for such a diverse and robust conversation. It's really amazing. I've been in the audience.
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The brilliance of...
Eyes opened or closed, it's all the same because the sun never shines there. Up ahead, you see a light. When you creep in to investigate, a blue light flits around you. "I could watch this forever," you think. But you can't
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Art of the Matter PIPE Nat...
and I encounter fireflies flitting about at dusk, that is pure magic to me. That is nature, finding expression against all the odds that we impress upon it. That to me is hope. And that shows me that life is resilient
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Plato’s Allegory of the...
or an all-too-short-lived flicker of flame. 2,400 years ago, one of history's famous thinkers said life is like being chained up in a cave, forced to watch shadows flitting across a stone wall. Pretty cheery, right?
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Vampire Bats feeding on...
vampires will be flying soon after george and sophie arrive so do the bats flitting close to them attracted by their body heat what do you got what you got let's see
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First person vs. Second...
But that can be good for stories where a feeling of distance is important. A third person narrator can be either limited, meaning they stick close to one character’s thoughts and feelings, or they can be omniscient, able to flit between characters’ minds and give the reader more information.
Video examples
Marlene Zuk: What we...
males are actually not all that important in the lives of a lot of insects. In the social insects -- the bees and wasps and ants -- the individuals that you see every day -- the ants going back and forth to your sugar bowl, the honey bees that are flitting from flower to flower --
Video examples
TED Prize wish: Protect...
at where we're sitting and then cruise up the coast to the big aquarium the ocean and California's four national marine sanctuaries and a new network state marine reserves that are beginning to protect and restore some of the assets we can flit over to Hawaii and
Video examples
Where are all the...
to tell the truth. It's easy to fool ourselves. I saw something, but what's more likely -- that I saw an alien spacecraft, or that my brain misinterpreted the data my eyes were giving it? Ever since though I've Why don't we see flying saucers flitting around?
Video examples
Marian Bantjes:...
your thoughts and words flit and dart, disconcertedly elusive at times, but when caught and examined -- ahh, such a wonder, such a delightful reward. There's no passing time with you, only collecting -- the collecting of moments with the hope for preservation
Video examples
Chris Abani: On humanity...
But also, most importantly, all the invisible people behind TED that you just see flitting around the whole place that have made sort of this space for such a diverse and robust conversation. It's really amazing. I've been in the audience.
Video examples
The brilliance of...
Eyes opened or closed, it's all the same because the sun never shines there. Up ahead, you see a light. When you creep in to investigate, a blue light flits around you. "I could watch this forever," you think. But you can't
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Art of the Matter PIPE Nat...
and I encounter fireflies flitting about at dusk, that is pure magic to me. That is nature, finding expression against all the odds that we impress upon it. That to me is hope. And that shows me that life is resilient
Video examples
Plato’s Allegory of the...
or an all-too-short-lived flicker of flame. 2,400 years ago, one of history's famous thinkers said life is like being chained up in a cave, forced to watch shadows flitting across a stone wall. Pretty cheery, right?
Video examples
Vampire Bats feeding on...
vampires will be flying soon after george and sophie arrive so do the bats flitting close to them attracted by their body heat what do you got what you got let's see
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Holliday Grainger
English Actress
I enjoy flitting around between hair colours. I find it fascinating when people think I'm naturally blonde, as I've only been blonde for about two seconds. People pay more attention to you as a blonde; it's also easier for people to assume you're a ditsy young actress. Of course, I am a ditsy young actress - well, maybe not ditsy.
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Edan Lepucki
American Novelist
I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
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Richard Blackmore
English Poet
The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.
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George Martin
English Producer
Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a dream world, really.
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Guy Standing
English Actor
The precariatised mind is one without anchors, flitting from subject to subject, in the extreme suffering from attention deficit disorder. But it is also nomadic in its dealings with other people.
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Anna Pavlova
Russian Dancer
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
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Jessie Mueller
American Actress
This business is crazy-pants. We flit in and out of these fantasy worlds and these intense periods of work and camaraderie, and then it goes away, and you do it all over again.
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Zhuangzi
Chinese Philosopher
I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
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Nicole Kidman
Australian Actress
If you're going to be with someone, you're with them, you're committed to them. I'm not sort of flitting around.
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Anton du Beke
British Dancer
I was one of those people who just flitted about in life. I had no plans and no sense of direction.
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Holliday Grainger
English Actress
I enjoy flitting around between hair colours. I find it fascinating when people think I'm naturally blonde, as I've only been blonde for about two seconds. People pay more attention to you as a blonde; it's also easier for people to assume you're a ditsy young actress. Of course, I am a ditsy young actress - well, maybe not ditsy.
Quote examples
Edan Lepucki
American Novelist
I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
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Richard Blackmore
English Poet
The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.
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George Martin
English Producer
Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a dream world, really.
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Guy Standing
English Actor
The precariatised mind is one without anchors, flitting from subject to subject, in the extreme suffering from attention deficit disorder. But it is also nomadic in its dealings with other people.
Quote examples
Anna Pavlova
Russian Dancer
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
Quote examples
Jessie Mueller
American Actress
This business is crazy-pants. We flit in and out of these fantasy worlds and these intense periods of work and camaraderie, and then it goes away, and you do it all over again.
Quote examples
Zhuangzi
Chinese Philosopher
I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
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Nicole Kidman
Australian Actress
If you're going to be with someone, you're with them, you're committed to them. I'm not sort of flitting around.
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Anton du Beke
British Dancer
I was one of those people who just flitted about in life. I had no plans and no sense of direction.
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