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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

adrift, afloat, airborne, alternating, amorphous, brittle, capricious, changeable, changeful, circumforaneous, corruptible, deciduous, desultory, deviable, discursive, divagatory, dizzy, drifting, dying, eccentric, ephemeral, errant, erratic, evanescent, fading, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, fleeting, flickering, flighty, floating, fluctuating, fluttering, fly-by-night, flying, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, fragile, frail, freakish, fugacious, fugitive, gadding, giddy, gliding, gypsy-like, gypsyish, hovering, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, insubstantial, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, jet-propelled, landloping, mazy, meandering, mercurial, migrational, migratory, momentary, moody, mortal, mutable, nomad, nomadic, nondurable, nonpermanent, passing, perishable, rambling, ranging, restless, roaming, rocket-propelled, roving, scatterbrained, shapeless, shifting, shifty, short-lived, shuffling, spasmodic, spineless, straggling, straying, strolling, temporal, temporary, traipsing, transient, transitive, transitory, transmigratory, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, undurable, unenduring, unfixed, unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, vacillating, vagabond, vagrant, variable, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volant, volatile, volitant, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, winging, wishy-washy

Dictionary Results for flitting:

1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Flit \Flit\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flitted; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Flitting.] [OE. flitten, flutten, to carry away; cf. Icel.
   flytja, Sw. flytta, Dan. flytte. [root]84. Cf. Fleet, v.
   i.]
   1. To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a
      rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits
      away; a cloud flits along.
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            A shadow flits before me.             --Tennyson.
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   2. To flutter; to rove on the wing. --Dryden.
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   3. To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to
      another; to remove; to migrate.
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            It became a received opinion, that the souls of men,
            departing this life, did flit out of one body into
            some other.                           --Hooker.
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   4. To remove from one place or habitation to another. [Scot.
      & Prov. Eng.] --Wright. Jamieson.
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   5. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
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            And the free soul to flitting air resigned.
                                                  --Dryden.
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Flitting \Flitt"ing\, Flytting \Flytt"ing\, n.
   Contention; strife; scolding; specif., a kind of metrical
   contest between two persons, popular in Scotland in the 16th
   century. [Obs. or Scot.]

         These "flytings" consisted of alternate torrents of
         sheer Billingsgate poured upon each other by the
         combatants.                              --Saintsbury.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Flitting \Flit"ting\, n.
   1. A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.
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   2. A removal from one habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov.
      Eng.]
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            A neighbor had lent his cart for the flitting, and
            it was now standing loaded at the door, ready to
            move away.                            --Jeffrey.
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