flicker

flicker

noun

Definition 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 film, flick, flicker, motion picture, moving picture, picture

Related Words animated cartoon, cartoon, docudrama, documentary, feature, featurette, short, short subject; silent, talkie; 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 burst, flare, flare-up, flash, flicker, flurry, flutter, outburst, spurt

Related Words 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 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 breath, flicker, glimmer, suggestion, tang, touch, trace, whiff

Related Words inkling, intimation, scent, wind; evidence, indication, mark, sign

Near Antonyms permeation, pervasion, saturation