Synonyms for fluid
ˈflu ɪdflu·id

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1. fluid

   A fluid is a substance that, like air or water, yields to any force that tends to change its form; a liquid is a body in that state in which the particles move freely among themselves, but remain in one mass, keeping the same volume, but taking always the form of the containing vessel; a liquid is an inelastic fluid; a gas is an elastic fluid that tends to expand to the utmost limits of the containing space. All liquids are fluids, but not all fluids are liquids; air and all the gases are fluids, but they are not liquids under ordinary circumstances, tho capable of being reduced to a liquid form by special means, as by cold and pressure. Water at the ordinary temperature is at once a fluid and a liquid.

   Synonyms:
   gas, liquid

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1. fluidnoun

   a substance that is fluid at room temperature and pressure

   Antonyms:
   unchangeable, nondisposable, solid, awkward, gaseous

2. fluidadjective

   continuous amorphous matter that tends to flow and to conform to the outline of its container: a liquid or a gas

   Antonyms:
   awkward, nondisposable, solid, unchangeable, gaseous

3. fluid, unstableadjective

   subject to change; variable

   "a fluid situation fraught with uncertainty"; "everything was unstable following the coup"

   Synonyms:
   mentally ill, mobile, liquid, unstable, fluent, runny, smooth, precarious, unsound

   Antonyms:
   awkward, gaseous, unchangeable, solid, nondisposable

4. fluid, runnyadjective

   characteristic of a fluid; capable of flowing and easily changing shape

   Synonyms:
   mobile, unstable, smooth, liquid, fluent, runny

   Antonyms:
   unchangeable, nondisposable, gaseous, solid, awkward

5. fluent, fluid, liquid, smoothadjective

   smooth and unconstrained in movement

   "a long, smooth stride"; "the fluid motion of a cat"; "the liquid grace of a ballerina"

   Synonyms:
   tranquil, smooth, silver-tongued, eloquent, placid, silver, liquified, still, quiet, legato, unruffled, smooth-spoken, swimming, suave, runny, limpid, facile, melted, mobile, unstable, fluent, liquid, bland, politic

   Antonyms:
   unchangeable, nondisposable, gaseous, solid, awkward

6. fluid, liquidadjective

   in cash or easily convertible to cash

   "liquid (or fluid) assets"

   Synonyms:
   mobile, liquid, unstable, fluent, limpid, melted, liquified, runny, smooth, swimming

   Antonyms:
   unchangeable, solid, awkward, gaseous, nondisposable

7. fluid, mobileadjective

   affording change (especially in social status)

   "Britain is not a truly fluid society"; "upwardly mobile"

   Synonyms:
   roving, mobile, liquid, unstable, fluent, wandering, nomadic, peregrine, runny, smooth

   Antonyms:
   nondisposable, unchangeable, awkward, solid, gaseous

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1. fluidadjective

   Synonyms:
   liquid, not solid

2. fluidnoun

   Synonyms:
   liquid, liquor

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1. fluidnoun

   Synonyms:
   liquid, liquor, solution

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1. List of paraphrases for "fluid":

   liquid, fluids, oil, liquids, goo, liquide, free-flowing, accepted, fluent, smooth, olive, cash, unstable

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1. State Department spokesman Mark Toner:

   It's a very fluid situation on the ground there, we're still getting information, we're still trying to seek out the whereabouts of American citizens ... Obviously, Brussels on any given day, is chock full of American citizens.

2. Astha Sharma:

   [ARDS], it’s an infection that can affect both children and adults, and it is an overwhelming infection of the lungs where the lungs fill with fluid, the lungs become inflamed, and the inflammation does not allow the lungs to deliver oxygen to the body.

3. Jimmy Smits:

   His character energy is a lot different than the bouncy, Victor Sifuentes -- forget about the fabulous 27 years or something in between, he is a pillar of the legal community, not only because he's older, but also the types of cases that he's handled and the significance of his work in the community. It just spoke to me in terms of what his energy needs to be, at least on the outside, because TV's kind of fluid : different things can happen, but you need to feel like he's a rock.

4. Pravin Dugel:

   With Beovu, greater fluid reduction was demonstrated through larger decreases in retinal thickness and a higher proportion of patients with drier retinas, coupled with the potential to treat patients with quarterly injections, this approval may change the way we approach the treatment of wet AMD.

5. Justin Pfaff:

   As you’re climbing and really putting a lot of pressure on your limbs … you push fluid out of the limb and then the socket is more loose than it was before because the limb has gotten smaller is size.