MEANING
1. Move quickly and lightly from one place or point to another.
2. Move one's home or belongings to another place.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- flit between branches
- flit across a face
On the page
A smile flitted across her face and disappeared.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- flit
- Past tense
- flited
- Past participle
- flited
- Present participle
- fliting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- flit
- Present continuous
- am/is/are fliting
- Present perfect
- have/has flited
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been fliting
- Past
- flited
- Past continuous
- was/were fliting
- Past perfect
- had flited
- Past perfect continuous
- had been fliting
- Future
- will flit
- Future continuous
- will be fliting
- Future perfect
- will have flited
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been fliting
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: flit; flits; flited; flited; fliting Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: flits.
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