aflutter
/əˈflʌt.ɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.86 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
In a state of tremulous excitement, anticipation or confusion.
Example Sentences
- "I can hear / Your heart a-flutter over the snow-hills;"
- "1888, W. B. Yeats, “King Gall” in uncredited editor, Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland, Dublin: M.H. Gill, p. 43, They will not hush, the leaves a-flutter round me—the beech leaves old"
- "The winds bared her limbs, the opposing breezes set her garments aflutter as she ran, and a light air flung her locks streaming behind her."
- "An electric guitar lick […] imposed itself in his mind as a major symbol of virility and youth, notes rising like scimitars, aftertones aflutter like birds, the bending of a blues note like the rising arc of an erection."
- "The day being warm and sultry, the balcony was all aflutter with the feather fans of the ladies of the family and their attendants,"
- "Beyond this lie the gardens of Hafiz and Saadi, each containing the poet’s tomb, and many others equally delicious for their cypresses, pines, and orange trees a-flutter with white pigeons and orchestras of sparrows."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English flutter- English aflutter From a- + flutter-.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈflʌt.ɚ/
- British English: /əˈflʌt.ə/
Inflected Forms
more aflutter (comparative)
most aflutter (superlative)