flicker | Definition of flicker

flicker

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of flicker

1 a story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track

as a child, the future director would spend hours sitting in the theater, totally entranced by the flickers

Synonyms of flicker

film, flick, motion picture, movie, moving picture, picture

Words Related to flicker

animated cartoon, cartoon, docudrama, documentary, feature, featurette, short, short subject

B movie, B picture, cofeature

2 a sudden and usually temporary growth of activity

usually there's a flicker in car sales when the new models come out

Synonyms of flicker

burst, flare, flare-up, flash, flurry, flutter, outbreak, outburst, spurt

Words Related to flicker

recrudescence, recurrence, renewal

binge, jag, spree

boost, increase, pickup, upswing, upturn

epidemic, eruption, explosion, paroxysm

deluge, flood, rush, spate, surge, volley

commotion, furor, uproar

Near Antonyms of flicker

calm, doldrums, slump

3 an almost imperceptible sign of something

there was a flicker of recognition in her eye when I mentioned his name, but she denied knowing him

Synonyms of flicker

breath, glimmer, hint, suggestion, tang, touch, trace, whiff

Words Related to flicker

inkling, intimation, scent, wind

evidence, indication, mark, sign

Near Antonyms of flicker

permeation, pervasion, saturation