Synonyms for flap
Definitions
- n. 1
A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
The comment caused quite a flap in the newspapers.
- n. 2
Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
The envelope flap seemed curiously wrinkled.
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- flaps → fusses, brouhahas, hullabaloos, stirs…
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Flap, flutter, and fluctuate refer to wave-like movements, flap generally to such as produce a sharp sound; a cock flaps his wings; flutter applies to a less pronounced and more irregular motion; a captive bird or a feeble pulse flutters.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- wing This bird has a broken wing. It can't fly anymore.
- tail The tail of a fox is longer than that of a rabbit.
- skirt She was clothed in a red blouse and a black skirt.
By length
- 3 letters
- tap1, ado2
- 4 letters
- wing1, tail1, stir1, fuss1, pelt1, faff
- 5 letters
- chaos2, shake1, pound1, skirt1, smack1, whack1, thump1, furor2
- 6 letters
- bother2, uproar2, outcry2, bustle2, ruckus2, pommel2, furore, fracas2, rumpus, dither2, thwack, pother
- 7 letters
- flutter2, clatter2
- 8 letters
- brouhaha3
- 9 letters
- commotion3
- 10 letters
- fluttering3, hullabaloo4
- 11 letters
- disturbance3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (ado2 = 2 syllables).